Air passenger aircraft that crashed in eastern Indonesia, killing all
54 on board, according to officials. "At 1:40 local time the Trigana
Air black box was found," Transportation Ministry official Julius
Arivada Barata told the Reuters news agency by text message on
Tuesday.
Major-General Heronimus Guru, operations director at Indonesia's
National Search and Rescue Agency, told a news conference in the
capital, Jakarta, on the same day that all passengers on the plane
were dead and their remains were being put into body bags and
recovered.
Officials have declined to comment on the cause of Sunday's crash
until the results of an investigation by the national transport safety
committee, but Guru said the terrain in Indonesia's easternmost
province may have been a factor. "There's a possibility the aircraft
hit a peak and then fell into a ravine because the place that it was
found is steep," Guru said.
Earlier, the National Search and Rescue Agency said the twin turboprop
ATR-42-300 probably hit a peak on Sunday before crashing into a ravine
in the Bintang Mountains district, about seven nautical miles from
Oksibil. ATR is a joint venture between Airbus and Alenia Aermacchi, a
subsidiary of Italian aerospace firm Finmeccanica.
-Aljazeera.
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