Boeing crash with 189 people in Indonesia.

The fall of the liner performing the flight JT-610 was the first for the aircraft of the generation of Boeing 737 MAX 8.
In Indonesia, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed off the coast of Java, carrying 189 people. All of them are found dead.

The collapse of the aircraft of the airline Lion Air, was the first for the aircraft of this generation. Their operation began just a year ago. Correspondent.net tells the details.

All died
The liner, performing the JT-610 flight from Jakarta to the city of Pankalpinang on Bank Island, disappeared from the radar about 13 minutes after takeoff. At this point, the liner was at an altitude of 1131 meters, and its speed increased to 345 knots (more than 635 kilometers per hour).

The pilot requested permission to return to Jakarta airport. Immediately after the disappearance of the plane, the authorities began a search operation.

The liner flew 181 passengers, including two children and one baby, as well as two pilots and six crew members. On board were at least 23 officials of the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia. All passengers are dead. Ukrainians are not among them.

The plane of the airline Lion Air fell into the Java Sea, 15 kilometers off the west coast of Java, to a depth of 30 to 35 meters.Participants in the search and rescue operation found life jackets, airplane seats, headphones and mobile phones, a children's backpack and shoes two miles from the proposed liner’s fall site, near the offshore oil refinery.

Rescuers do not plan to raise the surface of the Boeing 737. Now there are working divers. The priority remains the evacuation of the victims of the crash, as well as the search for flight recorders.![xxxx.PNG]According to the latest data, rescuers managed to find six bodies of passengers who died in the crash of the aircraft. They were delivered to the port of Tanjung Priok.

New aircraft and drug addicts
In the past six years alone, eight major air crashes have occurred in Indonesia, killing about 600 people.

Since 2002, the airline Lion Air, whose plane crashed in Indonesia, was recorded more than ten accidents.

Until now, the 2004 tragedy was considered the largest. Then the airliner rolled out of the take-off line and crashed into a cemetery located near the airport. Killed 31 people.

In 2013, the aircraft Lion Air, which were more than a hundred passengers, fell into the water near the Bali airport. The liner hull collapsed into two parts. As a result, 46 people were injured. The incident occurred due to pilot error.()The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper writes that since 2011, Lion Air pilots have been repeatedly accused of using drugs. So, in December 2017, the police detained one of them in a hotel, where the pilot was found illegal drugs.

The crash off the coast of the island of Java, Boeing 737 MAX 8 of Lion Air, which killed all 189 people on board, was the first for aircraft of this generation. Their operation began just a year ago.

Edward Siraith, director general of Lion Air Group, told Reuters that technical problems with this ship had been the same before: problems were noticed during the flight from Bali to Jakarta. Siraith assured that all problems were promptly fixed.

He refused to clarify the cause of the malfunction, adding that other Lion Air aircraft had no such problems.

In the operation of the airline 11 Boeing 737 MAX 8, Lion Air has no plans to abandon them. Crashed off the coast of Java, Boeing 737 MAX 8 has been flying since August.

The Boeing 737 MAX is a new generation of airline aircraft. Fuel consumption is 14 percent less than that of the Boeing 737 Next-Generation series, which produced more than six thousand.MAX also reduces resistance, emissions and noise footprint. Aircraft of this generation are equipped with engines LEAP-1B produced by CFM International with reduced thrust.

The first flight of the Boeing 737 MAX held in January 2016. In March 2017, the United States Federal Aviation Administration certified the 737 MAX 8 for commercial use. Over one hundred aircraft of this generation have already been launched.