INDONESIAN divers yesterday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta.

Earlier, rescuers pulled out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the surface.

The break in the search for Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 came after sonar equipment on a navy ship detected a signal from the aircraft at a location that fit the coordinates from the last contact made by the pilots before the plane went missing Saturday afternoon.

It’s still unclear what caused the crash. There was no sign of survivors.

“I represent the government and all Indonesians in expressing my deep condolences for this tragedy,” President Joko Widodo said.

Fishermen in the area between Lancang and Laki islands, part of an archipelago around Thousand Islands north of Jakarta’s coast, reported hearing an explosion around 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said Flight 182 was delayed for an hour before it took off at 2:36 p.m. It disappeared from radar four minutes later, after the pilot contacted air traffic control to ascend to an altitude of 8,839 meters, he said.

Sriwijaya Air President Director Jefferson Irwin Jauwena said the plane, which is 26 years old and previously used by airlines in the United States, was airworthy. He told reporters Saturday that the plane had previously flown to Pontianak and Pangkal Pinang city on the same day.

(SD-Agencies)