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Monday 17 August 2015

Missing plane highlights Indonesia's aviation safety problems

The recent search of an Indonesian aircraft conveying not less than 54 people on board   
which was confirmed missing on Sunday over the country’s remote and mountainous province of Papua, has asraised mor concern over the IIndonesia aviation Iindustry's safety.

Update : Smoldering wreckage of the Trigana Air Service turboprop plane was spotted from the air Monday morning in a rugged area of the easternmost province of Papua, rescue officials said. There was no immediate word if there were any survivors.]

 A Trigana Air Service plane which lost contact in the afternoon during a 42-minute flight from the provincial capital, Jayapura, to the city of Oksibil in Papua, the country’s largest and easternmost region, Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Barata told the Associated Press. The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane, which was carrying 49 passengers and five crew members, made no distress calls, Mr. Barata said


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