“A search and rescue effort has been launched after the passenger jet lost contact 13 minutes after takeoff on Monday morning.”
13 minutes after takeoff.
That means foul play.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/pk-lqp#1e5ff318
looks like it never got above 5000 feet
plane was only 2 months old:
https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/737/PK-LQP-Lion-Airlines/98qgSk0O
If so, what a terrible way to make some evil point.
Lion has earned a ranking as one of the least safe airlines. I’d say probably not foul play.
Here’s a picture of an earlier Lion Air flight
http://indosurflife.com/2016/02/9-out-of-10-worst-airlines-worldwide-are-from-indonesia/
That aircraft will fly most happily on one engine. I notice no calls of distress from the aircraft. Answer = catastrophic in flight failure or bomb, thus no calls of distress. A bomb is a catastrophic in flight failure.
ps
In the North Sea we lost two Sikorsky 61s due to catastrophic in flight failure. No distress call but they just went down. All perished. The S61 is a fine Helicopter. In subsequent investigations it was determined that the swash plate was improperly annealed and disintegrated in flight which made the craft doomed in an instant. It was not even Sirkorsky’s fault as it was a subcontractor that made the plate. However, Sikorsky paid as it was their chopper.
Moslem air crew?