Tag: Trigana air service

Indonesia locates crashed aircraft in remote area of Papua province

(Reuters) — Indonesian search and rescue officials said on Monday (August 17) that the crashed aircraft with 54 people on board had been detected in a forested, mountainous area in remote Papua province. The Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 plane crashed on Sunday (August 16), the latest in a string of aviation disasters in Southeast Asia. Heavy cloud initially delayed plans for an aerial survey to locate the plane that took off from Sentani Airport […]