Indonesia aircraft with 54 people crashes in Papua province
Jayapura
AN AIRCRAFT with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia's remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the South-east Asian nation.
"The latest information is that the Trigana aircraft that lost contact has been found at Camp 3, Ok Bape district in the Bintang Mountains regency," Air Transportation Director-General Suprasetyo told reporters. "Residents provided information that the aircraft crashed into Tangok mountain."
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