Locals found the remains of the Indonesian plane with 54 occupants was lost signal today on the island of Papua, officials said. "We have information from residents of the plane Trigana Air it has been found on a mountain subdistrict Okbape" he announced at a press conference in Jakarta Aviation Director General of the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation, M. Prasetyo.
The official said that the rescue teams will arrive tomorrow to the place and did not know if there were survivors. The appearance of the remains comes shortly after rescue teams suspend search operations by nightfall and the remote location.
The aircraft, an ATR 42 propeller model with 49 passengers and five crew on board, lost contact with the control tower 34 minutes after takeoff from Jayapura, capital of the Indonesian province of Papua, bound for the southern town of Oksibil .
The disappearance of the plane Trigana Air Service is the second plane crash in Indonesia which is produced in six weeks. A total of 141 people were killed on June 30 in the crash of a military aircraft in a residential area of Medan, capital of North Sumatra province, shortly after takeoff.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, then promised that the authorities would undertake a review of the country's air fleet, which experts consider antiquated
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