印尼一架载有189人的客机坠海 Flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang crashes

Members of a rescue team prepare to search for survivors from the Lion Air flight JT 610, which crashed into the sea, at Jakarta seaport ‍on October 29, 2018./ VCG Photo

The search(搜索 sōusuǒ) and rescue(救援 jiùyuán) efforts were underway after a passenger plane(客机 kèjī) of Indonesia's Lion Air crashed(坠毁 zhuìhuǐ) into the sea off western Indonesia on Monday, Muhammad Syaugi, head of the National Search and Rescue Office, said.

The plane with 189 people aboard went down off Karawang of Indonesia's West Java province shortly(不久 bùjiǔ) after taking off(起飞 qǐ fēi) from Jakarta.

Among the 189 people aboard were three children, Syaugi said.

Family members of the crashed Indonesian Lion Air JT610 at Pangkal Pinang airport, in Bangka Belitung province on October 29, 2018. /VCG Photo

The Lion Air plane with flight number of JT 610 took off from the Soekarno-Hatta international airport(机场 jī chǎng) in Banten province on Monday morning, Syaugi said.

"We have dispatched 130 personnel and another 30 from other units, three ships(船 chuán), one helicopter(直升机 zhíshēngjī) and several boats," Syaugi told a press conference at his office.

He said one of the focuses of the mission(任务 rènwù) was to dive into the waters with an average depth of between 30 and 35 meters deep to reach the main wreckage(残骸 cánhái) of the plane.

"We are now attempting to dive to retrieve the main wreckage of the plane. When we saw it from air, we have confirmed (it is found). We have discovered(发现 fāxiàn) buoys, mobile phone and several pieces of things," Syaugi said.

File photo of a passenger plane of Lion Air. [Photo: AP]

The plane carried a total(总计 zǒngjì) of 189 people, 181 of whom were passengers, spokesman of the Transport Ministry Bambang Ervan said.

The Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft bound for Pangkal Pinang left(离开 líkāi) the Soekarno-Hatta airport at around 06:10 a.m. local time, he said.

"The plane had requested (the air traffic control) to return(返回 fǎnhuí) to base before disappearing from radar(雷达 léidá)," Ervan told Xinhua by phone.

重点词汇 Key word: 

坠 

• <动词 v.> fall; drop
  E.g. Shù shàng de píngguǒ zài fēng zhōng fēnfēn zhuìluò.
  树上的苹果在风中纷纷坠落。
  Apple dropped down form the tree in the wind.

• <名词 n.> weight; hanging object
  E.g. Wǒ de ěrzhuì nǎr qù le?
  我的耳坠哪儿去了?
  Where are my earrings?