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Indonesian Plane Carrying 54 People Missing in Papua Region

posted by takyon on Sunday August 16 2015, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Reuters reports:

An Indonesian domestic passenger aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said. "Lost contact with plane," BASARNAS chief Bambang Soelystyo told Reuters by phone.

According to the official BASARNAS Twitter account, the aircraft belonging to Trigana Air Service was carrying 44 adult passengers, five crew and five children and infants.

[...] An AirAsia passenger jet crashed en route from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore last December, killing all 162 people on board. The crash prompted the government to introduce regulations aimed at improving safety.

BBC.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday August 16 2015, @10:53AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 16 2015, @10:53AM (#223501) Journal
    (3) Economic crisis has cut into aircraft maintenance cost too deep.
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Monday August 17 2015, @01:14AM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday August 17 2015, @01:14AM (#223700) Journal

    (3) Profit taking has cut aircraft maintenence too deep.

    People in the know often hold UK and Euro airlines to a high standard, then Air France land in Damascus because diverting to Cyprus would have cost more. BA engineers forget to close the bonnet - overworked? - and then flew with a burning engine over London because diverting to Stansted (closer and safer for those on the ground) was too pricey.