{"id":171841,"date":"2021-09-16T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=171841"},"modified":"2021-09-16T00:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:35:51","slug":"indonesian-cargo-plane-crashes-into-mountain-three-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/indonesian-cargo-plane-crashes-into-mountain-three-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Cargo Plane Crashes Into Mountain, Three Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jakarta, Sep 15 (PTI): A small cargo plane with three crew members on board crashed into a mountain in Indonesia&#8217;s jungle-clad Papua region on Wednesday, police said.<br \/>\nThe Rimbun Air flight lost contact with air control authorities shortly before it was due to land at an airport in Papua&#8217;s Intan Jaya regency, police and transport officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The weather at the airport was not supportive, it was predicted that the plane would land but the runway was not clearly visible,&#8221; Papua police spokesman Ahmad Mustofa Kamal said, adding a search operation for the three-man crew was underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wreckage of the Twin Otter 300 aircraft was found by locals over three hours later near a village in the highlands, Papua police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Images released by the rescue team on Wednesday showed the debris strewn on the jungle floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia&#8217;s fast-growing aviation sector has long been marred by safety concerns, with its airlines once banned from US and European airspace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Boeing 737-500 operated by Indonesian carrier Sriwijaya Air plunged roughly 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before crashing into waters off Jakarta earlier this year, killing 62 people on board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In October 2018, 189 people were killed when a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet crashed near Jakarta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta, Sep 15 (PTI): A small cargo plane with three crew members on board crashed into a mountain in Indonesia&#8217;s jungle-clad Papua region on Wednesday, police said. The Rimbun Air flight lost contact with air control authorities shortly before it was due to land at an airport in Papua&#8217;s Intan Jaya regency, police and transport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}