A Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 left Jakarta with 62 people on board but vanished from the radar on its way to Borneo island on January 9. Search teams have found aircraft parts and human remains and believe they know where the black boxes are located.

Amid this, a picture of a baby in a life jacket and surrounded by people is getting viral on social media with the claim that a baby was rescued from Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed in Indonesia.

A Facebook page name Jk News Time posted a picture of the baby with the caption, "Breaking News #Allah hu Akbar, one baby survived in Jakarta Indonesia plane crash.."

Fact Check

In our investigation, we found that the viral claim is false. This baby was a survivor from a boat that sank off Indonesia's Selayar island on July 3, 2018.

After doing reverse image research on Google, we found a news report published on 7 July 2018 by an Indonesian website. The news report carried the same photo with a caption written on it "3-year-old toddler managed to survive thanks to his mother's embrace. In the KM Lestari Maju accident, an unidentified toddler was also found. Photo: Special / Mongabay Indonesia".

We also found the photo in a tweet shared by Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency spokesman. The tweet reads "Many photo posts are on social media claiming that there was a baby passenger on the plane JT-610 who survived. The baby was a survivor of a boat that sank in the waters off Indonesia's Selayar island on Tuesday 3/7/2018, and it has no link with the Lion Air flight JT 610 crash. So this info is a hoax. Don't spread hoaxes."

In conclusion, an old image was used to falsely claim that a baby was rescued after the Sriwijaya Air plane crashed in Indonesia. This baby was a survivor from a boat that sank off Indonesia's Selayar island on July 3, 2018. It has nothing to do with the recent Indonesia plane crash.???????