Report of jet survivors was wrong

Relatives waiting for news about passengers from a missing jetliner wept after learning that Indonesian officials had erroneously reported that the Boeing 737’s wreckage had been found and that a dozen people may have survived.

A rescue official said the plane had probably crashed into the sea.

The Adam Air plane carrying 102 people sent out two distress signals in stormy weather Monday halfway through its two-hour journey from Indonesia’s main island of Java to the city of Manado, on the northern tip of Sulawesi island.