Indonesia finds wreckage of missing plane

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(VOVworld) – Villagers in eastern Indonesia’s Papua region say they have found the wreckage of a plane which went missing on Sunday with 54 people aboard.

(VOVworld) – Villagers in eastern Indonesia’s Papua region say they have found the wreckage of a plane which went missing on Sunday with 54 people aboard.

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A Trigana Air ATR-42 plane on the tarmac. (Photo: YSSYGUY/Wikipedia)
Indonesian Transport Ministry officials said search and rescue teams are heading to the area. According to Indonesia’s state search and rescue agency, the ATR 42-300 plane operated by Trigana Air Service carrying 49 passengers and 5 crew members lost contact with air traffic control at around 3 p.m. local time on Sunday as it was traveling from the Sentani airport in Papua’s capital Jayapura to Oksibil, in a mountainous area south of the capital. The plane crashed into a mountain.

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