Two days after an Indonesian plane belonging to Trigana Air went missing over the mountains, it has been confirmed that the plane was totally destroyed after it crashed in the western Papua region , leaving no survivors, the country’s top rescue official said.
Also, the officials have managed to locate the plane’s flight data recorders, known as black box, which should reveal more information on what caused the crash.
Rough weather and rugged terrain at the crash site delayed the rescue efforts and officials reached the site on Tuesday only to spot the wreckage of the plane that had been completely destroyed and partially burnt.
“All the bodies were burned and difficult to identify,” National Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo told a news agency, adding that there was no hope of any survivors.
The bodies will be taken to Jayapura for identification.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane was flying from Jayapura to the city of Oksibil when it lost contact. It was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children, and five crew members.
Soelistyo said the wreckage was at an altitude of 2,600 meters (about 8,500 feet). Much of Papua is covered with impenetrable jungles and mountains. Some planes that have crashed in the past have never been found.
