A passenger plane of Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air carrying more than 50 people on board crashed into waters off Jakarta on January 10, 2021.
- Navy divers have found wreckage from flight SJY 182 after locating a signal from the aircraft’s fuselage.
- Signals from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were detected between Lancang and Laki islands in the Thousand Island chain just north of Jakarta”s coast.
- Human remains and plane wreckage have been pulled from the crash site of the jet that plunged into the ocean minutes after takeoff with 62 people on board.
- Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago nation, with more than 260 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents on land, sea and air because of overcrowding on ferries, aging infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.
- The Thousand Islands is a part of the Jakarta Special Capital Region.
- Despite its name, Pulau Seribu or Thousand Islands has only 110 islands, which are mostly or fully devoted to tourism. It used to have 115 islands, but five have been submerged.
