INDONESIA: A Boeing 737 passenger plane carrying a total of 62 people is believed to have crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, BBC reported.
The Sriwijaya Air plane, BBC said, lost contact four minutes into its journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.
According to the flight tracking website Flightradar24.com, the aircraft lost more than 3,000m in altitude in less than a minute.
Witnesses have said they saw and heard one explosion.
Residents of an island near where the plane disappeared said they had found objects they thought were from the plane, BBC said.
Meanwhile, the transport ministry said search and rescue efforts were under way.
Reports have said the Indonesian navy has been deployed to look for the aircraft.
(With inputs from BBC)