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.
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(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday August 16 2015, @07:25PM
It should be noted that this is the same airline that lost another airliner this year. While the investigation is not complete, it's fairly clear that the pilots of that flight screwed up. It wouldn't surprise me if the same thing happened again.
I would not be surprised to find out the airline has been cutting maintenance and/or pilot training costs to increase profits.