Indonesia’s Lion Air Loses Contact With Passenger Plane

Indonesia’s Lion Air Loses Contact With Passenger Plane
A Lion Air Boeing 737-800 plane prepares to land. Rosland Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
The Associated Press
Updated:

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia’s Lion Air says it has lost contact with a passenger jet flying from Jakarta to an island off Sumatra.

A search and rescue effort has been launched for the Boeing 737-800 plane which departed Jakarta about 6.20 a.m. on Monday.

Lion Air spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said “we can confirm that one of our flights has lost contact, its position cannot be ascertained yet.”