‘You could feel the explosion’: How Indonesia Lion Air tragedy unfolded

A passport holder belonging to a victim of the Lion Air passenger jet that crashed on Monday is seen in the waters of Ujung Karawang, West Java, on Monday. Photo: AP.

JAKARTA (Reuters): Fishermen Budi and Gauk left home an hour before dawn on Monday and, with prawn nets stowed on their shallow teak boat, they headed out in a becalmed sea off the coast northeast of Jakarta in clear weather.

About the same time, on the other side of the Indonesian capital, passengers were checking in for Lion Air flight JT610.