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The Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed into the sea around 6.30 a.m. local time. It appears all 189 people are likely dead.
From the Reuters news agency: "Yusuf Latief, spokesman of national search and rescue agency, said there were likely no survivors."
Wreckage has been recovered from the crash site in the Java Sea, not far from where the plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia.
So far information is limited, but here is what we know about the 189 people on board: