25 more bodies moved from Trigana Air flight crash site

An official says an Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people has lost contact over the country’s easternmost province of Papua.

“Hopefully the recovery process will go safely and smoothly today”, Bambang said as quoted by Antara.

Soelistyo said that teams were also searching for a missing part of the plane’s black box after finding the cockpit voice recorder earlier this week.

The transportation of the bodies has been hampered by unfavorable weather conditions, according to rescuers.

Indonesia’s transport ministry has recovered one of the flight recorders from the crashed Trigana Air ATR 42-300.

Search teams reached the crash site almost 48 hours after the plane, an ATR-42, vanished, having battled their way through thick jungle and rugged terrain, said Heronimus Guru, the deputy director for operations at the National Search and Rescue Agency. Some of the money was badly burnt.

The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane crashed Sunday into a mountain while on a scheduled 42-minute flight from Jayapura to Oksibil in Papua province.

All 54 of the individuals on board the aircraft, together with 49 passengers and 5 crew members, have been suspected to be lifeless.

A spotter plane had located and photographed debris from the flight Monday in a heavily forested area of the Bintang Mountains district of Papua, but the search for the plane, which disappeared Sunday in stormy weather, was halted because of darkness.

The crash was just the latest air accident in Indonesia, which has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered major disasters in recent months, including the crash of an AirAsia plane in December with the loss of 162 lives.

The airline’s crisis center official in Jayapura’s Sentani airport said all the passengers were Indonesians.

Indonesia airways, no stranger to airline tragedies, has been prevented prior to now from flying in Europe due to its poor security requirements.