JAKARTA: A small plane carrying five people is believed to have crashed in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province, an official said Wednesday, with a search and rescue mission underway. In that area, it can be assumed the plane has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman at the search and rescue agency told Agence France-Presse. The plane was carrying three passengers and two crew, with the pilot believed to be European, he said. A passenger plane with 146 people on board skidded off the runway in May as it landed in the province. In August 2015, a commercial passenger aircraft operated by Indonesian carrier Trigana crashed in Papua due to bad weather, killing all 54 people on board.

Source: Manila Times July 05, 2017 09:45 UTC