Cargo aircraft with four persons missing in Indonesia

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A file photo of a de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

The Indonesia Transport Ministry on Monday said a cargo aircraft with four people on board had gone missing in Indonesia’s Papua province.
The ministry spokesman, Bambang Ervan, said the DHC-4 Caribou, was flying from Timika to Ilaga in Papua’s central highlands when it lost contact around midnight on Sunday.

Report says plane accidents are common in jungle-clad Papua, which relies on air transport because of limited road networks.
A spokesperson from Indonesia’s transport ministry was quoted by Okezone News as saying that air traffic controllers established that the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou aircraft was missing after failing to regain contact with its flight crew for over an hour.
“At (about) 08.30 Eastern Indonesian Time, Ilaga radio operators attempted to contact (flight) PK-SWW but there was no response and assistance has been requested to aircraft in the Ilaga area to spot the aircraft but until 0.920 hours, there was no information in PK-SWW,” Transport ministry official Bambang Ervan said on Monday.
NAN

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