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Missing aircraft type: Indonesia's president
pledged to review the country’s aging air force in July of this year
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Contact was lost with an Indonesian aircraft with 54 people
on board near Papua New Guinea, at about 6 am GMT, Indonesia's state search and
rescue agency has tweeted.
The report was confirmed
by Reuters, who spoke with rescue agency chief Bambang Soelystyo by telephone.
An anonymous source in a
provincial air carrier, cited by RIA Novosti news agency, claims the plane has
crashed into a mountain, killing everyone on board. There has been no
confirmation of this report so far.
Indonesia's president
pledged to review the country’s aging air force in July, following a military
plane crash that left over 100 people dead.
The flight TGN267, an ATR
42 short-range airliner, was going from Sentani to Oksibil, both in Papua, and
was supposed to only take 50 minutes.
The aircraft was carrying
44 adult passengers, five children and five crew members, the agency also
tweeted.
The ownership record of
the missing aircraft available at
Planespotters.com shows that it is almost 25 years
old.
The agency has tweeted
that they are beginning the search, while conflicting media reports suggest
that the search for the plane will be delayed until Monday due to poor weather.
Flight TGN267 was not
equipped with an Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) system,
which makes tracking the aircraft difficult.
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