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
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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.