On average – and this includes small plane crashes – 500 people die every year in aviation accidents.

Compared to the 1,3 million that die in road accidents every year, this number is quite small, which is why a massive plane crash like that of Lion Air Flight 610 is so unusual and so tragic.

Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, likely killing 189 people, reports Business Insider.

The 40-metre-long Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed minutes after leaving Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A passenger on the plane recorded a video of himself and other passengers boarding the plane.

Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba shared the video with his wife, Inchy Ayorbaba, on WhatsApp. She saw it at 6:30 a.m. and then went 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 Ayorbaba told Indonesian’s TVOne, according to the AP.

Here’s the now eerie video that captures the last living moments of some of the passengers on the flight:

To date, the body of the plane and the bodies of passengers are missing, although a flight recorder (black box) has been recovered, which should illuminate some of the circumstances that led to the crash.

[source:businessinsider]