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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @02:28AM
Maybe aircraft in Indonesia are still maintained as described in this 1951 book?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Bend_%28novel%29 [wikipedia.org]
A perceptive friend recommended I read this book when I mentioned that I was working through a minor depression. Worked like a charm!
Since I was raised without going to church/temple/mosque etc, the religious references in the book meant nothing to me when I read it the first time. Only when I read some reviews did this become evident...