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There was no word yet on whether anyone might have survived the crash.

Residents found two metal pieces that might have come from the aircraft that went missing with 54 people on board in Indonesia’s remote Papua province, a military official said Monday.

The first bodies of 54 people killed when a plane went down in eastern Indonesia were Wednesday carried from the remote crash site after bad weather hampered efforts to airlift them.

Air transport is commonly used despite Indonesia’s patchy aviation record… since land travel is often impossible in the island country.

A Trigana Air pilot spotted the wreckage in the “area that we suspected last night”, Ludi Yanto, head of the Jayapura Search and Rescue Office, said by telephone Monday.

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

There was no indication of a distress call from the French-built ATR 42-300twin turboprop plane, the ministry said. No information has been given about whether there were any survivors from the crash.

There are still few details about what actually happened to the Trigana Air Service flight, but what is known is that the plane took off on Sunday from Papua’s provincial capital, Jayapura.

Heronimus Guru, the deputy operational officer of the National Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters the approximate location of the wreckage is 7 nautical miles southwest from oksibil.