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Sriwijaya Air B737 Crashes Minutes After Takeoff

Ted Perton·
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Contact has been lost with a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500, shortly after take-off from Jakarta en route to Pontianak. Flight SJ182 lost over 10,000 feet of altitude in less than a minute, sparking a massive search-and-rescue response from Indonesian authorities.

Update

Indonesian authorities have located the aircraft’s black boxes and are continuing to recover human remains and debris from the accident. It has now been revealed that, while 56 people were occupying passenger seats, there were six off-duty crew members flying onboard.

https://twitter.com/breakingavnews/status/1347863350877839361?s=21

The flight was carrying 50 passengers, including seven children and three infants, as well as 12 crew members (6 of whom were travelling as passengers), according to a passenger manifest obtained by SamChui.com.

Weight and balance charts show that the aircraft was carrying 500kg of baggage.

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Authorities examine wreckage believed to be from the downed aircraft. Picture via Whatsapp

The aircraft’s last contact was at 14:40 local time. The aircraft is a 27-year-old Boeing 737-500. Registration PK-CLC.

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The aircraft’s flight path prior to disappearing off radar (Flightradar24)

More information to follow. Feature image via Whatsapp

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The aircraft involved, photographed in 2013. Registration PK-CLC

Ted Perton
Aviation Editor

Ted is an Australia-based contributing editor at SamChui.com, having joined as a staff writer in 2020. With a background in aviation policy and law, Ted has worked on numerous major projects interfacing with aviation and transport systems. His self-described favourite pastime is collecting frequent flyer points, status credits and lounge-hopping. Ted is based between Melbourne and Canberra, Australia.

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15 Responses

  1. There have been 10,586 B737’s built since 1966. In total there have been 63 fatal accidents including 37 (100-200), 12 (Classic 300, 400, 500), 12 (NG 600-900) and 2 (MAX). That’s just 0.0059% of the aircraft built have been lost in a fatal crash. I would not call the 737 a “killing machine”.

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  3. Whatever happened was extremely fast. crew got off no distress call, did not ask for radar vectors back to the airfield. etc so the crew were not concerned before the fatal plunge THE A320 crash of XL555T seems to be similar in some ways. SJ182 took off in heavy rain, so what if ice developed in the pitot tubes or static ports? Then the ADIRU may have become confused by conflicting signals, so the autopilot rolled the plane inverted until recovery was impossible?
    It may be something just as simple as failure to select Anti-ice heating

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    1. The plane was also turning and moments before crash, they lost speed until 15 knots, before gaining speed until about 350 knots. I agree with the possible theory. But, according to the conditions on the flight, shouldn’t have the pilots turned on pitot heat and prevented such events? This event is absolutely tragic. Better maintenance or pilot training may solve this problem. But time will tell, until the black boxes have been retrieved.

  6. May they rest in peace in the arms of GOD…my condolence to all the families involved in this tragic mishap…amin2 YRA

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  8. Oh God 737 again? What a pile of crap i think now the most people killed by 737 than the McDonald Douglas DC10 the killing machine. People need to avoid flying Boeing 737 all together. Or like a Sri Lanka as a country they banned 737max & 737NG even entering or crossing there airspace. Not even allowed for emergency landing.

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    2. That’s not fair to the 737. They have been flying since the late 60’s. Don’t jump to conclusions. The investigation will find the cause of the crash.

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