Antara news agency reporting that the plane was circling over Belitung to avoid the storm when it was struck by severe turbulence.
Would they have been talking to the Belitung ATC?
Have been looking at other news so not on top of this...I won’t be surprised if it’s proven the weather created a situation and the pilot made the best decision he knew.
Of course then you’ll have all the arm-chair pilots telling us what he should have done and who is to blame.
Bottom line is a plane “unintentionally” crashed and people lost their lives.....will be interesting to see if any survived...though it’s been hours.