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TRIGANA TWIN OTTER CRASH-LANDS IN PAPUA
Jayapura, July 8 (ANTARA) - A Twin Otter light plane, operated by Trigana Air, made a crash landing at Dekai airport in Papua district of Yahukimo on Tuesday afternoon.
Contacted by phone from here, Yahukimo Police chief Senior Commissioner Chris confirmed the accident but said there was no fatality in the crash landing because the ill-fated plane did not carry any passenger.
He said the Twin Otter plane was flying in bad weather from Yani Roma in Boven Digul district to Yahukimo when the accident occurred.
Meanwhile. an eyewitness said on condition of anonymity that the front part of the ill-fated plane was serously damaged after it hit a mound on landing.
Less than two weeks ago, 18 people were killed when an Indonesian Air Force Cassa 212 aircraft crashed onto Mount Salak in Bogor, West Java, on Thursday, June 26.
The ill-fated Cassa N212-200 plane, based at the Squadron 4 of Abdulrahman Saleh airbase in East Java, was a light cargo aircraft equipped with facilities for aerial photography and aerial surveys.
The aircraft left Halim Perdanakusuma airbase in Jakarta on Thursday (June 26) at 9.23 a.m. for Bogor for a training mission for aerial digital camera operators.
At 10.38 a.m., the plane disappeared from radar while it made its last contact with the Pondok Cabe control tower in Jakarta at 10.50 a.m. when it was heading to Bogor.
At 11.10 a.m., the aircraft could no longer be contacted by officers of the control tower at the Atang Senjaya airbase in Bogor.
The news about the crash of an Indonesian Air Force Cassa 212 aircraft was immediately greeted with dismay by several members of the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission-I.
They deplored the Cassa NC 212-200 crash because it was an indication that many military planes and other components of the country's defense armament need repairing and modernization.
Contacted by phone from here, Yahukimo Police chief Senior Commissioner Chris confirmed the accident but said there was no fatality in the crash landing because the ill-fated plane did not carry any passenger.
He said the Twin Otter plane was flying in bad weather from Yani Roma in Boven Digul district to Yahukimo when the accident occurred.
Meanwhile. an eyewitness said on condition of anonymity that the front part of the ill-fated plane was serously damaged after it hit a mound on landing.
Less than two weeks ago, 18 people were killed when an Indonesian Air Force Cassa 212 aircraft crashed onto Mount Salak in Bogor, West Java, on Thursday, June 26.
The ill-fated Cassa N212-200 plane, based at the Squadron 4 of Abdulrahman Saleh airbase in East Java, was a light cargo aircraft equipped with facilities for aerial photography and aerial surveys.
The aircraft left Halim Perdanakusuma airbase in Jakarta on Thursday (June 26) at 9.23 a.m. for Bogor for a training mission for aerial digital camera operators.
At 10.38 a.m., the plane disappeared from radar while it made its last contact with the Pondok Cabe control tower in Jakarta at 10.50 a.m. when it was heading to Bogor.
At 11.10 a.m., the aircraft could no longer be contacted by officers of the control tower at the Atang Senjaya airbase in Bogor.
The news about the crash of an Indonesian Air Force Cassa 212 aircraft was immediately greeted with dismay by several members of the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission-I.
They deplored the Cassa NC 212-200 crash because it was an indication that many military planes and other components of the country's defense armament need repairing and modernization.
