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It was a Boeing 737 MAX 8 which is a brand new type of aircraft. The flight took off from Jakarta at 06:20 local time on Monday morning (23:30 GMT on Sunday). Confirming the plane crash, Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the agency said, “It has been confirmed that it has crashed.”
Providing further information on the plane crash, an official of state energy firm Pertamina states that debris which is doubted to be of the aircraft was found near an offshore refining facility in the Java Sea. He said, “We don’t know yet whether there are any survivors.”
Edward Sirait, chief executive of Lion Air Group states, “We are trying to collect all the information and data.”