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Four bodies pulled from wreckage of cargo plane in Papua mountains
INDONESIAN search and rescue personnel have removed the bodies of four members of the crew of a crashed cargo plane to Moses Kilangin airport in Timika in Papua.
They were recovered from the wreckage of the DHC4 Turbo Caribou PK-SWW plane that crashed in the remote mountains October 31, reports United Press International.
The Trigana Air cargo plane, a DeHavilland Canada DHC-4 propeller-driven plane, was found at an elevation of about 12,000 feet in Indonesia's Jawawijaya mountain range, Henry Bambang Soelistyo of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency said.
Radio contact with the plane was lost about an hour after it left Timika on Monday morning while flying to Ilaga; each is a town in eastern Indonesia in Papua province, on the island Indonesia shares with Papua New Guinea.
The four aboard the plane died instantly, the Jakarta Globe said. KNKT, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, is investigating the accident.
A Trigana plane crashed in Papua province in August 2015; 54 people, including passengers and crewmembers, were killed.
They were recovered from the wreckage of the DHC4 Turbo Caribou PK-SWW plane that crashed in the remote mountains October 31, reports United Press International.
The Trigana Air cargo plane, a DeHavilland Canada DHC-4 propeller-driven plane, was found at an elevation of about 12,000 feet in Indonesia's Jawawijaya mountain range, Henry Bambang Soelistyo of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency said.
Radio contact with the plane was lost about an hour after it left Timika on Monday morning while flying to Ilaga; each is a town in eastern Indonesia in Papua province, on the island Indonesia shares with Papua New Guinea.
The four aboard the plane died instantly, the Jakarta Globe said. KNKT, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, is investigating the accident.
A Trigana plane crashed in Papua province in August 2015; 54 people, including passengers and crewmembers, were killed.
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