preliminary data
About 160 people are working on searches for missing persons.
Numerous vessels and several helicopters are participating in the rescue operation.
The rescue operation in addition to the bodies and possible survivors also looks for the black boxes of the aircraft, which later will be fundamental for the clarification of the causes of the accident.
So far, the causes of the tragedy are uncertain; the flight occurred on the penultimate flight of the aircraft was not specified by the company.
It was only two months since the plane was in operation, the pilot and the co-pilot had together more than 11,000 hours of flight; a fact that indicates that the event that caused the accident may have been technical problems.
Flight data from Flightradar24 shows that the aircraft rose to about 5,000 feet (1,524 m), lost altitude, recovered, and eventually fell into the sea.
The last position of the aircraft was registered 15 km north of the coast of Indonesia.
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