Antara News, Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:55 WIB
Jakarta(ANTARA News) - An aircraft of National Police Headquarters with five crewmembers crashed at Wami area in Wanggar district, Papua, on Wednesday.
"Theaircraft is predicted to have crashed at Wami area on Wednesday. Three bodieshave been discovered while two others remain missing," National Policespokesman Insp Gen Iskandar Hasan said here on Thursday.
Iskandarsaid the police ill-fated Skytruck plane was with five crews, namely AdjunctCommissioner Irwan as pilot, Inspector-I Bayu as co-pilot, and Inspector-IIMohamad Amri, Brigadier-I Hadirianto, and Brigadier-I Aipul Bahri when it wentmissing.
"Threebodies have so far been discovered but two others remained missing,"Iskandar said, adding that the ill-fated plane transported logistic assistanceto Wasior flood victims, and was flying from Nabire to Jakarta via Ambon andMakassar when it went down at Wami in Wanggar district.
Iskandarsaid that after refueling at Nabire, it took off to Ambon at 3.55 pm local timebut 35 minutes afterward it lost contact.
Then at11.30 pm the people of Wami in Papua informed the local police that they saw anaircraft went down not far from the area where they lived.
Iskandarsaid the crash of the police Skytruck aircraft was due to bad weather.
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