JAVA SEA

Oct. 30, 2018

All 189 passengers and crew aboard Boeing-737 MAX, an Indonesian Lion Air jet are likely to have died when the airliner crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta.

About:

The Java Sea lies between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east.
Karimata Strait to its northwest links it to the South China Sea.
It is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf.

Source : The Hindu

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