Victims of plane crash found dead

Search and rescue workers found Wednesday the bodies of all 15 people aboard a Twin Otter Merpati Nusantara Airlines plane which crashed in Papua on Sunday.


Merpati president director Bambang Bhakti said in Jayapura that the land rescue team and local residents had reached the site of the crash on the slope of Bintang Mountain, three nautical miles south of Abmisibil district at an altitude of 9,300 feet.


“All the passengers and crew have for sure died. We heard the report from our land search team,” Bhakti said, as quoted by state news agency Antara.



The victims will be evacuated when an air rescue team, which was prevented from reaching the site because of poor weather, can safely fly. Members of the air rescue team will be dropped at Abmisibil airstrip this evening and ascend the mountain to join the land rescue team and begin evacuating of the victims.


The aircraft went missing on Sunday on a flight from Sentani airport in Jayapura to Oksibil airport in the Bintang Mountain regency.


It was carrying 12 passengers, including two babies and three crew members.


Merpati president director Bambang Bhakti said in Jayapura that the land rescue team and local residents had reached the site of the crash on the slope of Bintang Mountain, three nautical miles south of Abmisibil district at an altitude of 9,300 feet.



“All the passengers and crew have for sure died. We heard the report from our land search team,” Bhakti said, as quoted by state news agency Antara.


The victims will be evacuated when an air rescue team, which was prevented from reaching the site because of poor weather, can safely fly. Members of the air rescue team will be dropped at Abmisibil airstrip this evening and ascend the mountain to join the land rescue team and begin evacuating of the victims.


The aircraft went missing on Sunday on a flight from Sentani airport in Jayapura to Oksibil airport in the Bintang Mountain regency.


It was carrying 12 passengers, including two babies and three crew members.

source:
The Jakarta Post

Commuter trains collide in Bogor, many feared injured

Saving lives: Policemen rescue a locomotive engineer from a Pakuan Express train. The train smashed into an economic train in Bogor on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring dozens of others

A Pakuan Express Business Class carriage smashed into the rear of an Economy Class electric train in Bogor, a city south of Jakarta, at 10 a.m. this morning.


No official statement regarding injuries or casualties has been released yet. However, a passenger of the business class train, Danang, informed Sonora radio that an evacuation of the electric train passengers was underway.


“The rear car is the most severely damaged part of the train. There are many passengers squeezed between the two trains,” Danang reported. He added that he was seated in the middle car and sustained minor injuries due to the crash.


The Pakuan Express train was speeding when it hit the electric train, as it departed from a station near Goodyear tire plant. Both commuter trains were bound for Jakarta.

source:
The Jakarta Post