Plane carrying over 50 passengers goes missing shortly after take-off few

-Indonesia's transport ministry is making efforts to find and rescue passengers aboard a plane that has gone missing - The plane with more than 50 people took off from the country's capital, Jakarta, but went missing shortly afte - Residents of the island where the plane is suspected to have disappeared said they found objects which could be from the aircraft. There is palpable anxiety in Indonesia as a passenger plane with over 50 people on board went missing shortly after taking off from the country's capital city, Jakarta. According to the officials,it was said the Boeing 737 plane belonging to Sriwijaya Air contact en route to Pontianak. Meanwhile, some residents of an island near where the plane disappeared said they had found objects they believed were from it. Indonesia's transport ministry said search and rescue efforts were ongoing at the time this report was filed. n its own reaction, Sriwijaya Air said it was still gathering information about the flight. BBC noted that the plane is not a 737 Max, the Boeing model which was involved in two major crashes in 2018 and 2019.