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Indonesia: Lion Air flight with 188 onboard crashes into sea, wreckage found

An Indonesian Lion Air passenger plane that went missing on Monday morning shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta has crashed, said reports.

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An Indonesian Lion Air passenger plane that went missing on Monday morning shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta has crashed, said reports.

The plane had gone missing 13 minutes after take-off to the city of Pangkal Pinang off the island of Sumatra.

"It has been confirmed that it has crashed," Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the agency, said by text message to Reuters when asked about the fate of the Lion Air plane.

Indonesia disaster agency said that the flight was carrying 188 people including one child and two babies, and seven crew members.

The wreckage had been found near where the Lion Air plane lost contact with air traffic officials on the ground, said Muhmmad Syaugi, the head of the search and rescue agency.

"We don't know yet whether there are any survivors," Syaugi told a news conference. "We hope, we pray, but we cannot confirm."

Plane maker Boeing said in a tweet that it was aware of reports of an airplane accident and it was "closely monitoring" the situation.

According to Flightradar24, the aircraft was delivered to Lion Air in August of this year. It is powered by two CFM LEAP-1B engines.

ADS-B data from the flight is available at https://t.co/zNM33cM0na pic.twitter.com/NIU7iuCcFu

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) October 29, 2018

Preliminary flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows the aircraft climbed to around 5,000 feet (1,524 m) before losing, and then regaining, height, before finally falling towards the sea.

In December 2014, AirAsia Indonesia’s Airbus A320 aircraft crashed into the waters after taking off from Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

(More details are awaited)

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