CRASH TIMELINE

6.20am local time: Lion Air flight JT 610 takes off from Soekarno-Hatta airport with 189 on-board and is scheduled to arrive in Pangkal Pinang, the capital of Bangka Belitung Islands province, from Jakarta at 0720 hrs 6.22am: Captain Bhavye Suneja, who is from India, contacts air traffic control (ATC) in Jakarta to report a problem with his flight control when flying at an altitude of 1,700ft. Rescuers at the crash site off the waters of Karawang, West Java, sent 34 body bags containing human remains, including possibly that of a baby, for DNA testing on Tuesday. Pictures and video shared online by the head of Indonesia's disaster relief agency show debris and oil floating on the water following the crash, of which there are, so far, no known survivors. “The fragmented floating debris suggests that there’s probably not going to be a rescue effort but they should certainly be able to recover the black boxes fairly expeditiously.”

The aircraft was seen last on the radar at 6.22 a.m. at 2,500 to 3,000 feet, Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of the National Transport Safety Committee (NTSC) said. Sony Setiawan has revealed he is lucky to be alive after traffic jams made him late for a flight that crashed in to the sea off Indonesia.He was due to be among the 189 people on board Lion Air flight JT 610 when it took off early from the capital Jakarta on Monday morning. pic.twitter.com/XK0UiSKyfH — Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (@Sutopo_PN) October 29, 2018

Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency Basarnas chief Muhammad Syaugi said his agency was alerted to the incident at about 6.50am and immediately dispatched resources to the possible crash site. On 28 December 2014, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A320-216, registered as PK-AXC, msn: 3648, crashed into the Java Sea during bad weather, killing all 155 passengers and seven crew on board. This Boeing 737 Max 8, painted in the colors of customer Southwest Airlines, was celebrated as the 10,000th 737 to roll off the assembly line on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. In a statement Boeing said it was 'deeply saddened by the loss of Flight JT 610' and expressed sympathy for the loved ones of those on board. Southwest Airlines was the first airline in North America to offer scheduled service on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, with its first flight from Dallas to Houston in October 2017. The head of Indonesia's national transportation safety committee (KNKT) Dr Soerjanto Tjahjono told reporters that the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane that crashed entered service in August this year and had clocked only about 800 flight hours.
A Boeing 737, en route from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, crashes into the ocean near Karawang, Indonesia, killing all one hundred eighty-one passengers and eight crew.