Indonesian rescuers find debris from missing plane
Indonesian rescuers on Sunday morning found debris from an aircraft scattered all over the mountainside in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province, near the last known location where an ATR 42-500 fisheries surveillance aircraft went missing the day before, according to officials.
The wreckage found near the peak of Mount Bulusaraung is believed to be from the missing aircraft, although officials could not confirm until they have heard from the aircraft company, said Andi Sultan, an official at the local rescue agency.
The Indonesia Air Transport plane lost contact with air traffic control at about 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) around the Maros region in South Sulawesi province, and had been heading to Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi, after departing from Yogyakarta province before contact was lost, Sultan said.
There were eight crew and three passengers on board, he added.
Around 400 personnel, including military and police units, were deployed to search for the plane and those on board, though the effort was being hampered by bad weather, Sultan said. He declined to comment on the possible cause of the incident.
The plane had been chartered by Indonesia's Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, ministry official Pung Nugroho Saksono told state news agency Antara.
According to unconfirmed Flightradar24 data, an aircraft matching the description was flying eastward over the Java Sea at about 11,000 feet before rapidly losing altitude and dropping off tracking systems.
(Source: Reuters)
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