Search teams are urgently hunting for more than 60 people after the plane they were travelling in crashed earlier today. The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 plane lost contact after taking off from Indonesian capital Jakarta earlier today en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.
According to AirLive.net, there were 62 people on board - 56 passengers, four crew members and two pilots. Of the 56 passengers, 46 were adults, seven were children and three were infants.
It's been reported the flight fell 10,000ft in less than one minute, about four minutes after taking off. Surachman, a local government official, told Kompas TV that fishermen found what appeared to be the wreckage of an aircraft in waters north of Jakarta and a search was
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