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Rescuers Say Wreckage of Missing Indonesian Plane Is Found

Indonesian rescuers said Monday they have found the wreckage of a small plane carrying 10 people that went missing on a domestic flight three days ago. The DHC-6 Twin Otter plane lost contact with air traffic controllers 11 minutes after taking off in good weather Friday from Masamba in South Sulawesi province. National Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said the wreckage...

Indonesian Plane Remains Missing, Search to Continue Monday

Indonesian rescuers will continue searching Monday for a small passenger plane that went missing Friday with 10 passengers on board, after efforts to find the plane over the weekend were unsuccessful. Heronimus Guru, deputy operations director of Indonesia’s Basarnas search agency, said nearly 300 people were deployed Sunday searching the area near Suli and Siwa in South Sulawesi pro...

Passenger plane carrying 10 people including three children is missing over Indonesia

Small aircraft was travelling between Masamba and Makassar on Friday  Officials confirmed contact had been lost with the DHC-6 Twin Otter plane  Plane was carrying three crew and seven passengers for one-hour flight A passenger plane carrying 10 people including three children has gone missing in Indonesia.   The country's Aviastar airline said contact had been lost...

Search Resumes for Missing Plane in Indonesia

Indonesian authorities have resumed searching for an Aviastar airline Twin Otter turboprop aircraft with 10 people on board that went missing on Friday during a flight on Sulawesi island. The aircraft lost contact with airport authorities on a flight from the town of Masamba about 30 minutes before it was scheduled to land in Makassar city. The incident is in yet another blow to th...

Search Begins For Missing Indonesian Aircraft

Indonesian authorities have launched a search for an Aviastar Twin Otter turboprop aircraft with 10 people on board that went missing on a domestic flight on Sulawesi island. The Transport Ministry said a search has begun for the aircraft that lost contact on a flight from the town of Masamba, about 30 minutes before its was scheduled to land in Makassar city. "It was around 60 nautical...

Garuda Indonesia Inaugurates GMF "Hangar 4", World's Biggest Narrow Body Hangar

As a continuous business expansion program, designed to cope with the increased demands in narrow body aircraft maintenance, Garuda Maintenance Facilities (GMF) AeroAsia, a subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia, has completed the construction of Hangar 4, the world's biggest narrow body aircraft hangar with a maintenance capacity of up to 16 narrow body aircraft including one bay for aircra...