The wreckage thought to be from the Trigana Air Service plane was sighted on Monday morning in the heavily-forested Bintang Mountains region, local police chief Yunus Wally said.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from Jakarta, said a rescue plane had identified smoking wreckage and another smaller plane was on its way to get a closer look.
"At the same time two teams have gone overland but it's a very mountainous area and they're not sure how long this journey is going to take to get there," our correspondent said.
A helicopter may also be sent - depending on what the smaller plane finds - to see if it is possible to land near the crash site.
The Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 plane's disappearance is the latest in a string of aviation disasters in Southeast Asia.
The passengers on the plane, reported to be an ATR-42 model, include 44 adults, two children, three toddlers and five crew members.
Hours after the plane's disappearance, villagers in eastern Indonesia's Papua region claimed to have found the wreckage, the transport ministry's director-general of air transportation, Suprasetyo, who goes by one name, said.
"The plane has been found [by villagers]. According to residents, the flight had crashed into a mountain. Verification is still in process," Suprasetyo said.
According a tweet by Indonesia's National Agency Search and Rescue agency, the aircraft lost contact while flying over the remote eastern Papua region at 2:55pm local time.
The plane had been scheduled to land at a small airport in Oksibil around 3pm local time (06.00 GMT).
Oksibil is a remote town near the country's border with Papua New Guinea.
Our correspondent said reports indicated that "the weather was very bad" in Papua at the time the plane was in the air.
"It is also known as quite a spooky area to fly in and planes go missing there."
On Wednesday, a Cessna propeller plane operated by Indonesian company Komala Air crashed in Papua's Yahukimo district, killing one person and seriously injuring the five others on board.
Officials suspect that the crash was caused by bad weather.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Indonesian search and rescue teams are heading to a remote part of the western Papua region where a plane is believed to have crashed on Sunday...
ReplyDeleteOfficials have confirmed they spotted debris near the town of Oksibil.
The Trigana Air flight was heading to the town from the provincial capital, Jayapura, when it lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday.
The plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew members.
It is not yet known if anyone survived.
Indonesian post office officials told the BBC the plane was also carrying four bags containing about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was being taken to villages in remote areas.
"Our colleagues carry those bags to be handed out directly to poor people over there," said the head of Jayapura's post office, Haryono, who goes by only his first name..........BBC
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Indonésie: l'avion transportait des fonds destinés à des familles pauvres ...
ReplyDeleteL'avion qui s'est écrasé dimanche dans une région montagneuse d'Indonésie avec 54 personnes à bord transportait 6,5 milliards de roupies en liquide, soit environ 420 000 euros. Cet argent devait être distribué à des familles pauvres de la province de Papouasie, a indiqué lundi un responsable."Quatre de nos employés escortaient les fonds", a déclaré Haryono, le chef de la poste de Jayapura, qui n'a qu'un patronyme comme nombre d'Indonésiens, précisant que l'argent était entreposé dans quatre sacs.
L'ATR 42 qui avait disparu des écrans radars dimanche après-midi lors d'un vol intérieur depuis Jayapura, capitale de la Papouasie, s'est abîmé après environ une demi-heure de vol dans une zone montagneuse isolée de cette province orientale. L'appareil, dont le vol devait durer 45 minutes environ, avait pour destination Oksibil, une localité montagneuse très reculée uniquement accessible par voie aérienne. Lundi, un avion effectuant des recherches pour retrouver l'appareil disparu a repéré des débris probablement issus de la carcasse. Des villageois des environs avaient précédemment assuré avoir découvert l'épave de l'avion de ligne.
Des équipes de secours devaient se rendre lundi sur le site présumé du crash
Air Trigana avait été "trouvé" par des villageois
L'avion, un bi-turbopropulseur ATR 42 de transport régional, transportait 44 passagers adultes, cinq enfants et les cinq membres d'équipage.
Il a disparu peu après avoir demandé l'autorisation de descendre, une dizaine de minutes avant l'heure prévue pour son atterrissage à Oksibil (est de cette province). Cette localité montagneuse très reculée, uniquement accessible par voie aérienne, est proche de la frontière avec l'Etat indépendant de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée............http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_indonesie-un-avion-disparu-avec-54-personnes-a-bord?id=9054877
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Indonesia plane crash: Remains of 54 dead found in Papua...
ReplyDeleteIndonesian rescuers have recovered the remains of 54 people who died onboard a Trigana Air plane that crashed in Papua region on Sunday.
The head of the search and rescue agency said his team had found the aircraft completely destroyed and partially burnt.
The black box flight data recorder has also been found.
The plane came down on Sunday in dense forest in a mountainous area, close to its destination of Oksibil.
It was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children, and five crew members - all believed to be Indonesian.
The plane was also said to be carrying about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was due to be distributed to poor families in the area. Officials have not said whether this has been located.
Members of the rescue team - made up of about 100 police, military and civilians - began reaching the site on Tuesday morning.............http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33970184
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Crash d'avion en Indonésie: 54 corps retrouvés, aucun survivant ...
ReplyDeleteDes équipes de secours ont découvert mardi les corps des 54 personnes à bord de l'avion qui s'est écrasé deux jours auparavant dans une région montagneuse isolée de l'est de l'Indonésie, a annoncé un responsable.
"Il n'y a aucun survivant. Les 54 corps ont été retrouvés", a déclaré à l'AFP un porte-parole du ministère des Transports, J.A. Barata. L'appareil transportait 49 passagers, parmi lesquels cinq enfants, et cinq membres d'équipage.
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