A 27-year-old ship captain who had recently become a father for the first time was one of 62 people aboard the Indonesian passenger plane believed to have crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta, his family have said.

The Sriwijaya Air plane disappeared from radars a few minutes into its journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.

Video filmed on Saturday (January 9) shows relatives of Angga Fernanda Afriyon at the family home. Mother Afrida said her son had called him to tell her he was going to Pontianak for a job.

"Before leaving for Pontianak, Angga accompanied his wife [to Jakarta] to give birth to their first child at a hospital. Angga could only see their first child for a week and had to go to Pontianak for an assignment."

Based on a passenger list seen by Newsflare's filmer, Angga Fernanda Afriyon was aboard the plane.

An emotion of emotion can be seen at the house of one of the victims of the SJ182 Sriwijaya Air plane. JAKARTA - PONTIANAK who was declared to have fallen in the waters of the Thousand Islands, Indonesia from the city of Padang On behalf of Angga Fernanda Afriyon, Sunday, January 10, 2021, dawn.

based on the statement of angga's biological mother named afrida, said that "this 27 year old man was one of the ship's captains ,, angga had called me to ask permission to go to Pontianak because his company was assigned to pull the damaged ship with another ship" .

Afrida also emphasized that "before leaving for Pontianak, angga accompanied his wife to give birth to their first child at a hospital in the city of Jakarta, angga could only see their first child for only a week and had to go to Pontianak for an assignment".

based on the passenger list of the Sriwijaya air SJ182 aircraft JAKARTA - PONTIANAK, the name angga fernanda afriyon is in the third out of 56 suspected victims.