Lion Air JT 610 Aircraft was New, Fell Out of a Clear Sky Minutes after Take-Off

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An Indonesian policeman holds wreckage recovered from Lion Air flight JT610 which crashed into the sea, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 literally fell out of the sky near where the two men were fishing about 15 km (9 miles) off the coast, silently at first and then with a deafening crash as it smacked into the sea. Police busied themselves with rubber dinghies and ambulances were lined up on the shoreline, but no one pretended that any of the 189 people on board flight JT610 would be found alive. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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An Indonesian rescue team member carries an airplane oxygen tube recovered after Lion Air flight JT610 crashed into the sea, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. Lion Air, a low-cost airline that dominates the domestic air travel market, has had more than a dozen accidents in its nearly 20-year history, but none with fatalities since 2004. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Indonesian rescue team members examine debris recovered from Lion Air flight JT610, that crashed into the sea, during the recovery process at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. The captain of Monday's flight JT610 from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, the main town on Bangka, a beach-fringed island off Sumatra, was Bhavye Suneja, a 31-year-old Indian citizen originally from New Delhi. He and an Italian passenger were the only known foreigners on board. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Wreckage recovered from Lion Air flight JT610, that crashed into the sea, lies at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. According to his Linkedin account, Suneja had worked for Lion Air since 2011, clocking up some 6,000 flight hours. On Facebook there are photos of him in his Lion Air uniform, smiling. Minutes after take-off at 6:20 a.m., Suneja reported technical difficulties and obtained permission from ground officials to turn back. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Indonesian Navy members carry body bags with the remains of passengers of Lion Air flight JT610, that crashed into the sea, during the recovery process at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. Data from FlightRadar24 shows the first sign of something amiss was around two minutes into the flight, when the plane had reached 2,000 feet (610 metres). The plane dropped more than 500 feet (152 metres), veered to the left and then started climbing again to 5,000 feet (1,524 metres). It gained speed in the final moments before data was lost when it was at an altitude of 3,650 feet (1,113 metres). REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Wreckage recovered from Lion Air flight JT610 which crashed into the sea is seen at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is the most recent model of Boeing's famous 737, the U.S. company's best-selling plane, and is a popular choice among budget airlines around the world. Lion Air's plane was almost brand new. It was flown for the first time on Aug. 15, and the airline said it had been certified as airworthy before Monday's flight by an engineer who is a specialist in Boeing models. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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