Indonesian Flight TGN267 Missing Over Papua Region

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Indonesian Flight TGN267 Missing Over Papua Region

An Indonesian plane with 54 people on board is missing in Papua region, officials have said.Contact was lost with the Trigana Air ATR 42 turboprop just before 15:00 local time (06:00 GMT) after take-off from Sentani airport in the regional capital Jayapura.

The plane was flying to the town of Oksibil in the south of the region.A search for the missing plane was suspended at dusk and will continue on Monday morning, rescuers said.Unconfirmed reports suggest the plane crashed with weather the likely cause.

The aircraft was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew.It took off from Sentani at 14:21 and contact was lost at 14:55.Transport ministry spokesman Julius Barata confirmed the disappearance.

"We are not sure what happened to the plane yet and we are co-ordinating with local authorities," he told AFP news agency.Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency later said the search had been suspended at nightfall because of limited visibility and would resume at 06:00 local time on Monday (21:00 GMT on Sunday).

Officials later said a second plane had been sent to look for the missing one, but was turned back because of the bad weather."Oksibil is a mountainous area where weather is very unpredictable," Trigana Air director of operations Beni Sumaryanto told AFP. "It can suddenly turn foggy, dark and windy without warning.

"We strongly suspect it's a weather issue. It is not overcapacity, as the plane could take 50 passengers." Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia's certified airlines are on the list.Correspondents say Indonesia has a patchy aviation record overall, with two major crashes in the past year.An Indonesia AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea last December while on an international flight from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 192 people on board.

A military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra in July, killing more than 140 people including several on the ground.​

 

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(Indonesia's Papua region is a mountainous area where weather is extremely unpredictable, according to Trigana officials. The rescue efforts have been hindered by continuing bad weather and suspended until the morning)

(The area where the plane went missing is covered with impenetrable jungles and mountains. Some planes that have crashed there in the past have never been found.)
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[Sub Zer0]

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[Executer]

තව එකක් කෙල වෙලා නෙහැ බන් මොකක්ද බන් මේ plane වලට වෙන්නේ

 

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another one.

 

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හෙට අනිද්ද වෙද්දී අපිට නිකං මැලේසිය ගිහිං එන්න පුළුවන් වෙයි වගේ

 

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උබ හදපන්කෝ එහෙනං බැන බැන ඉන්නේ ඔච්චර ලේසි නං

 

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Found the wreckage

 

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Found the wreckage

 

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Indonesian flight TGN267 wreckage found in Papua after villagers reported seeing plane crash into mountainside

An Indonesian aircraft that went missing with 54 people on board has been found crashed on a remote mountainside in Papua.After an air search for the Trigana Air Service plane was suspended as darkness fell, local villagers told authorities they had seen a plane flying low before crashing near Okbape, in the Bingtang district.

Plans for the aerial search to resume on Monday were called off, and in a statement Indonesia's transport ministry confirmed that wreckage had been found.

Earlier, news that the ATR 42-300 twin turboprop plane had gone missing was posted to the Twitter account of the state search and rescue agency (BASARNAS).

Speaking to the Reuters news agency, BASARNAS's chief Bambang Soelystyo confirmed that officials had "lost contact with plane", which was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants and five crew members.
Officials said the weather had been poor near Oksibil, with strong winds and heavy rain, when the plane vanished nine minutes before it was due to land.
The plane was on its way from Sentani Airport in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, to Oksibil, a short, 50-minute flight over land.

Transport ministry spokesman Julius Barata said the plane, with flight code TGN267, lost contact with controllers 33 minutes after take-off. It was reportedly not equipped with ADS-B tracking technology.Indonesia's flight safety record has come under scrutiny after it suffered two major incidents in the past nine months.

Last December, an AirAsia passenger jet crashed on its way from Surabaya to Singapore, killing 162 people.

In July, a crash involving a military transport plane killed more than 100 people in northern Indonesia, prompting president Joko Widodo to call for a review of the country's aging aircraft stock.

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