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| Trigana Air crash: rescuers reach Papua site and find dozens of bodies | Trigana Air crash: rescuers reach Papua site and find dozens of bodies |
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| Related: Indonesian police say wreckage of missing plane spotted by search aircraft | Related: Indonesian police say wreckage of missing plane spotted by search aircraft |
| The first rescuers reached the Indonesian crash site of a Trigana Air plane on Tuesday and found dozens of bodies, authorities said, adding that the plane was completely destroyed and there was no chance any of the 54 people on board had survived. | |
| The plane lost contact on Sunday as it flew in bad weather from Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, to Oksibil, a remote settlement in the mountains to the south. | The plane lost contact on Sunday as it flew in bad weather from Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, to Oksibil, a remote settlement in the mountains to the south. |
| “The plane was totally destroyed and all the bodies were burned and difficult to identify,” national search and rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “There is no chance anyone survived.” | |
| The ATR 42-300 twin-propellor plane had been carrying 49 passengers and five crew, as well as 6.5bn rupiah (£300,000/US$470,000) in cash, which were social assistance funds intended for distribution to poor families. | The ATR 42-300 twin-propellor plane had been carrying 49 passengers and five crew, as well as 6.5bn rupiah (£300,000/US$470,000) in cash, which were social assistance funds intended for distribution to poor families. |
| “Our rescuers have reached the crash site,” Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told AFP. “The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed. | “Our rescuers have reached the crash site,” Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told AFP. “The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed. |
| “Everything was in pieces and part of the plane is burnt.” | “Everything was in pieces and part of the plane is burnt.” |
| He said rescuers looked for survivors at the site, which is in dense forest in a mountainous area, but the chances of finding anyone alive were minimal. | He said rescuers looked for survivors at the site, which is in dense forest in a mountainous area, but the chances of finding anyone alive were minimal. |
| Soelisyo said rescuers were also hunting for the plane’s flight data recorders. | Soelisyo said rescuers were also hunting for the plane’s flight data recorders. |
| Agence France-Presse and Reuters contributed to this report | Agence France-Presse and Reuters contributed to this report |