The same video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter in , and alongside a similar claim.
National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia said it had no plans to reintroduce the plane to its fleet as it focuses on an ongoing debt restructuring process chief executive Irfan Setiaputra told Reuters.
It is considered possible that the precipitation was so dense that it attenuated the radar signals, reducing the reflections that usually indicate precipitation and making such high density appear to be a clearer path.
In the crash all 189 people on board this kind of aircraft which was operated by domestic carrier Lion Air had died.
Debris and fuel surrounding the small boats near the crash were said to have been heard following the crash.
But aircraft accidents have always been a shocking event.