Special report: Indonesian passenger plane
missing
JAKARTA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A villager in Indonesia's
North Sulawesi province was reported Tuesday of having seen a wreckage of a
white-painted plane but it cannot be immediately confirmed that it was the
Boeing 737-400 that went missing on Jan. 1.
A man identified only as Katili said he saw the
wreckage when hunting wild boars in the jungles of Sangtombolang district on the
northern coats of Sulawesi island and immediately told local police and military
officers, reported leading news website Detikcom.
The search and rescue team was on the way to the said
wreckage location.
The plane belonging to Jakarta-based Adam Air is
believed to have crashed with 102 people onboard during a journey to the North
Sulawesi capital of Manado amid bad weather.
Backgrounder: Major air crashes in Indonesia since 2004
BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- An Indonesian jetliner with 102 people aboard crashed into mountains in Indonesia's northeastern island of Sulawesi on Monday, killing at least 90 people on board.
Following is a chronology of major air crashes in Indonesia since 2004:
2004:
Nov. 30: A Lion Air passenger plane skid off the runway and crashed during heavy rains in central Indonesia, killing at least 30 people and injuring 75.
Dec. 23: A helicopter Puma crashed some 17 km from a small town in Indonesia's Central Java Province, killing 14 people on board.
2005:
Feb. 22: A small plane of the Indonesian police crashed near the airport of Indonesia's Sarmi regency in the eastern-most Papua island, killing 14 people on board.
Sept. 5: An Indonesian Boeing 737-200 with 117 people on board crashed into a residential area in the city of Medan, Indonesia's third-largest city, killing 102 people on board and 47 on the ground.
2006:
Nov. 17: A Twin Otter aircraft crashed in Papua province of Indonesia, killing more than 10 people on board.
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Disasters in recent years |
