Indonesian Searchers Find Wreckage of Crashed Trigana ATR

[This story was updated at 3.00 p.m.]

Indonesian transport authorities confirmed that emergency response teams found the wreckage of a missing Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 late on Sunday local time. The twin turboprop regional airliner crashed at Bintang in Papua province, some 10 minutes from its destination Oksibil. The 27-year-old aircraft took off at 2:22 pm local time for a roughly half-hour flight from the provincial capital Jayapura on the northern coast of Papua, just west of the Papua New Guinea boarder. It carried 54 people, including two children and three infants as well as five crewmembers.

The route took the airplane over a remote, heavily forested and mountainous part of the island. Indonesian officials indicated that the crew issued no distress call by the time ATC lost contact roughly 10 minutes before the airplane was due to land in Oksibil.