Indonesia finds body parts, debris, detects emergency signal of crashed jet (update)


Search and rescue team members carry debris recovered from the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 crash site on the dockside at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Indonesian President Joko Widodo confirmed the plane had crashed about 20 hours after it went missing following its departure from capital Jakarta, calling on all parties to expend all efforts to search for and rescue the victims. - Bloomberg

JAKARTA, Jan 10 (Reuters): Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved.

The Boeing 737-500 with 62 passengers and crew was headed to Pontianak in West Kalimantan before it disappeared on Saturday from radar screens four minutes after takeoff.

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