A passenger on the doomed Lion Air flight that killed 189 people when it crashed into the sea shared video footage of himself and others boarding the plane.
Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba shared the video with his wife, Inchy Ayorbaba, on WhatsApp. She saw it at 6.30 a.m., before going back to sleep, the Associated Press reported.
The plane crashed less than a minute later.
“It was his last contact with me, his last message to me,” Inchy told Indonesian TV station TVOne, according to the Associated Press.
It was his first trip to Bangka Island, in the north of Indonesia’s string of islands.
The video shows the last images of some of the passengers that were killed when the 40-meter long Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed minutes after leaving Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday.
No survivors have been found, while rescuers have found debris and filled body bags with recovered body parts.
You can watch the video here:
It shows many of the mundane moments of air travel, including people queuing to have their boarding passes inspected and wheeling carry-on bags towards the plane.
At one point, it zooms in to Ayorbaba’s own boarding pass, and the flight number JT 610.
He also zooms in on a waiting Lion Air plane, and to another Lion Air jet in the distance. He then focuses on his own waiting plane, according to the Associated Press, where a woman can be seen climbing the stairs and disappearing into the aircraft.
He shared the video with his wife about 35 minutes before takeoff according to its timestamp, she told TVOne.
She heard the news that the plane had crashed at around 9 a.m., she said.
“I went back to watching the video,” she said. “I saw his boarding pass he showed in the video. I started to believe he was in that crashed plane.
“I kept calling him, sending WhatsApp messages, hoping that he didn’t go, or something made him cancel his trip but there was no answer.”
So far, rescuers have recovered around 49 body bags of human remains and given them to investigators, CNN reported.
Experts found a 22-meter-long object, which they think is the largest part of the 40-meter long Boeing 737 MAX, according to the Associated Press.
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