US EditionIndonesian plane with 11 people vanishes in mountainous region and a search is underway
- On Saturday, FlightRadar24 reported an ATR 42-500, registration PK-THT, missing after local media and flight-tracking data suggested debris on a mountain near Leang-Leang.
- Amid a troubled safety record, Indonesia relies heavily on air transport; last year, two fatal crashes killed all aboard in South Kalimantan province and four in Ilaga, Papua district.
- PT Indonesia Air Transport said the flight was operated for Indonesia's Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance service, carrying three passengers and eight crew members.
- Makassar search-and-rescue officials dispatched teams to mountainous Leang-Leang in Maros Regency, deploying the air force, police, volunteers, helicopters and drones to locate the missing plane.
- Contact was lost shortly after about 1:17 p.m. local time; the last recorded signal at 04:20 UTC was about 12 miles northeast of a Makassar-area airport, with low altitude over the ocean limiting radar coverage.
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After the crash of a small transport aircraft in Indonesia, the rescue forces have recovered wreckage parts, but the ten occupants of the aircraft are missing. On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, "the hull, tail and window" of a machine missing since Saturday afternoon, said the head of the local rescue forces on Sunday. Of the ten occupants, no trace has been found so far.According to the authorities, there were three government officials fro…
Indonesian authorities find wreckage of missing plane
Wreckage from a turboprop ATR 42-500 aircraft, similar to the one pictured here, has been found in South Sulawesi province in Indonesia after losing contact with air traffic control on Saturday. File photo: Getty Images Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province near a fog-covered mountain, but were still searching for the 11 people on board.
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