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| Survivors found after Indonesian jet crash kills 90 |
| 2007-01-04 |
| Rescue workers on Tuesday found 90 bodies and the twisted wreckage of a plane carrying 102 people which crashed into a remote Indonesian mountain, and said the other 12 may have survived. The Adam Air plane with 96 passengers, including three Americans, and six crew on board slammed into a mountain on the west of the island of Sulawesi after vanishing off air traffic control radar screens on Monday. The Boeing 737-400 had sent distress signals an hour after taking off from Java island en route to Sulawesi, and an official said it had been flying too low. It was the second transport disaster in Indonesia within a few days. Late on Friday a ferry carrying 600 people sank off Java in an accident blamed on bad weather. National Search and Rescue Board spokesman Suyatno said none of the bodies from the plane crash had been evacuated yet, the official Antara news agency reported. He said rescue workers were still searching the region for the 12 people villagers reported had survived. “We cannot say whether they are safe or killed. We are still looking for them,” he said. The wreckage was discovered on a mountainside in West Sulawesi at a height of 8,000 feet, national transportation safety commission chief Setio Rahardjo said in Jakarta. “The question is why was the plane flying at 8,000 feet – that is what we are trying to find out. The plane was supposed to be flying at 32,000 feet,” Setio said, according to the detikcom online news service. The jet was carrying 85 adult passengers, 11 children including four babies, and six crew when it crashed. The Surabaya airport duty manager has said there were no technical problems with the plane when it took off. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I think the claim of survivors has been debunked, sadly enough. Is this link to say the debuking has been debunked? |
| Posted by: Adriane 2007-01-04 00:42 |