Rescuers found debris and one body on January 18 from a small plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia with 10 people on board, officials said. (Photo by Muchtamir Zaide / AFP)Rescuers have found the bodies of all 10 people were on board a chartered plane that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia at the weekend, a local official said Friday. The turboprop plane, chartered by the fisheries ministry, was carrying seven crew and three civil servants, when it lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday. The bodies of the two remaining missing people were found on Friday and would be recovered, said local rescue official Andi Sultan. Indonesia, a vast archipelago in Southeast Asia, relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands.

Source: Punch January 23, 2026 07:56 UTC