There are no survivors. The bodies of the 54 people aboard the plane that crashed Sunday in Papua, in a remote mountainous region in eastern Indonesia were discovered Tuesday by rescue teams arrived at the site where the device is completely destroyed, officials said. A spokesman for the Department of Transportation, JA Barata, told AFP that there were no survivors, "The 54 bodies were found".
This plane crash of the regional transport company Trigana Air is the third air disaster in less than a year in this country of Southeast Asia with a poor record on aviation safety. The plane was flying between two cities in the eastern province of Papua is "completely destroyed", told AFP the director of the national search and rescue agency, Bambang Soelistyo after help arrived at the scene at 9:30 (0:30 GMT). "Everything is in pieces, and part of the plane was burned," he has said.
The aircraft had disappeared from radar screens Sunday on a flight of about 45 minutes between Jayapura, capital of Papua and Oksibil, a town just under 300 km to the south. The contact was lost ten minutes before landing, after the pilot had requested permission to start the descent in bad weather. No information was provided on the large amount of cash conveyed by postal employees Papua - 6.5 billion rupees (420 000) - which were to be distributed to poor families in the province.
Trigana Air, a small company founded in 1991 and serving forty domestic destinations, is on a blacklist banning flying in the EU. The company has experienced 14 incidents since its launch, according to the Aviation Safety Network, which lists the air accidents.
Source : Paris Match
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