US EditionIndonesian plane with 11 people vanishes in mountainous region and a search is underway
Search teams deployed to mountainous Maros Regency focus on locating the ATR 42-500 carrying 11 people after losing contact near Makassar, with debris and fires reported.
- 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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