Indonesian National Police Plane Missing Over Papua
Farouk Arnaz | November 03, 2009
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The National Police will send a search and rescue team to Papua on Tuesda
to look for a missing plane.
The
aircraft, a twin-propeller Skytruck logistical plane, was carrying four
passengers, said Brig. Gen. Sulistyo Ishak, the National Police deputy
spokesman.
The plane left Papua’s Sentani Airport at 11:30
a.m. local time on Monday and was scheduled to arrive at Mulia town in Puncak
Jaya district at 12:30 p.m. Airport officials lost radio contact with
the aircraft at around noon.
The pilots’ names were Adjutant
Comr. Yunus and Second Insp. Benecditus. They were with two engineers,
whose names were not available at press time.
The police said it was forced to start deploying a search team only today because of bad weather in the area on Monday.
“We hope that we can still find them alive and safe,” Sulistyo said.
Small aircraft are a key mode of transportation for police in Papua, which has large swathes of rough terrain.
The
National Police currently operates several light aircraft and
helicopters, including four PZL M28 Skytrucks, a Bizjet 400SP, a Casa
NC-212/200, Beechcraft 18CH and a Fokker F50. They are maintained at
the Air Police headquarters at Pondok Cabe Airport, south of Jakarta.
Air
accidents are not uncommon in Papua and are caused mostly by bad
weather. In August, all 15 passengers died after a plane crashed in a
mountainous region in eastern Papua.
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