US EditionIndonesian rescuers find a body and wreckage of plane in mountainous region
Rescuers found scattered wreckage and recovered one body from an ATR 42-500 that disappeared in poor weather while carrying 11 people, search ongoing amid difficult terrain.
- On Sunday, Indonesian rescuers recovered a body in a ravine about 200 meters deep on Mount Bulusaraung while searching for 11 people, and Muhammad Arif Anwar said evacuation is underway.
- The ATR 42-500 vanished from radar Saturday shortly after air traffic control instructed it to correct its approach alignment en route from Yogyakarta, Java to Makassar, Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport.
- A rescue team on an air force helicopter spotted a small aircraft window on Mount Bulusaraung Sunday, while ground search teams retrieved main fuselage and tail debris, engine, passenger seats, and frame parts as hikers reported debris, an Indonesia Air Transport logo, and small fires.
- Maj. Gen. Bangun Nawoko said more than 100 personnel, supported by Specialized Search and Rescue Units, faced strong winds, heavy rain and thick fog that forced cancellation of a planned vertical descent.
- It was carrying eight crew members and three passengers from the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry on an airborne maritime surveillance mission, amid Indonesia’s reliance on air transport across over 17,000 islands and recent years of transportation accidents.
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Indonesian rescuers find body, wreckage of plane
JAKARTA — Indonesian rescuers on Sunday recovered a body in the continuing search for 10 people aboard a plane that went missing and crashed the previous day while approaching a mountainous region on Sulawesi island during cloudy weather.
They chose to stay on the peak of Bulusaraung Hill because the evacuation process could not be fully carried out due to bad weather and extreme terrain.
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