Airline News
All lives suspected lost in weekend Trigana Air crash
August 17th 2015
Rescue crews are nearing the site of the Trigana Air crash in remote Jayapura, Eastern Papua, after the ATR 42-300 crashed in bad weather on August 16, with 49 passengers and five crew on board. The aircraft, which was bound for another remote town in Indonesia’s Papua, Oksibil, departed from Jayapura on the 45 minute journey to its destination mid-afternoon on Sunday. Read More »
It sought air traffic control’s permission to descend 10 minutes before landing, but the plane did not arrive at its designated airport. Villagers found the aircraft and said it had crashed into a mountain, Agence France Press (AFP) reported. “We strongly suspect it is a weather issue. It is not over-capacity as the plane could take 50 passengers,” Trigana Air’s director of operations, Captain Beni Sumaryanto, told media.
