Lion Air plane crashes into Indonesia’s Java sea, relatives wait at Depati Amir airport; see pics

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Indonesia's Lion Air plane carrying 188 passengers and crew crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, October 29, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta. The jet vanished from the radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the ocean. Video footage apparently filmed at the scene of the crash showed a slick of fuel on the surface of the water. Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho tweeted pictures of debris, including what appeared to be an emergency slide and various parts of a smashed mobile phone.

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Rescue personnel prepare to dive at the location where a Lion Air plane crashed into the sea in the north coast of Karawang regency, West Java province Indonesia, October 29, 2018. (Reuters)

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Relatives of passengers of Lion Air flight JT610, grieve at Depati Amir airport in Pangkal Pinang in Indonesia on Monday. (Reuters)

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Lion Air official check the passenger list of flight JT610 at Depati Amir airport in Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia. (Reuters)

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Relatives of Lion Air passengers comfort each other as they wait for news on the plane that crashed off Java Island at Depati Amir Airport in Pangkal Pinang on Monday. (AP)

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Workers of PT Pertamina stand onboard Prabu ship owned by PT Pertamina as they watch what is believed to be debris from the crashed Lion Air flight JT610, off the shore of Karawang regency in West Java province, Indonesia on Monday. (Reuters)

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In this photo released by Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) rescuers inspect debris believed to be from a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed off West Java on Monday. (AP)

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Passengers wait for their flight in front of a Lion Air office at Soekarno Hatta International airport near Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday. (Reuters)

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The Flightradar website tracked the plane — which it said was a Boeing 737 — and showed it looping south on take-off and then heading north before the flight path ended abruptly over the Java Sea, not far from the coast. (AP)

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Indonesia relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands but has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered several fatal crashes in recent years. (AP)