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Missing Indonesian plane not yet found

(2007-01-04 22:53:07)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Searches in Indonesia's South and West Sulawesi provinces for the Adam Air passenger plane that has been missing since last Monday have still not yielded any positive results, an Air Force official said Thursday.

No distress signals from Indonesian airliner

(2007-01-04 20:15:09)

    BEIJING, Jan 4. (Xinhuanet) -- A top Indonesian aviation official said Thursday the missing jetliner with 102 passengers on board did not send distress signals or report mechanical problems before disappearing Monday.

Search resumes for missing Indonesian airliner

(2007-01-04 20:12:31)

    BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A break in the weather Thursday allowed search aircraft to take to the skies, while ships searched the sea and soldiers tackled tough jungle terrain as a search resumed for a jetliner that disappeared Monday ove r a remote corner of Indonesia with 102 people on board.

U.S., Singapore help search missing plane in Indonesia

(2007-01-04 15:57:19)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United States and Singapore have assisted Indonesia in searching a passenger plane which went missing on Monday with 102 people aboard, Indonesian Transport Minister Hatta Rajasa said here Thursday.

Singapore helps search Indonesian missing plane

(2007-01-04 12:47:25)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- A plane belonging to the Singaporean government has joined the search of an Indonesian passenger plane went missing Monday somewhere on Sulawesi island or its waters.

Indonesia welcomes foreign countries' assistance to help find missing air plane

(2007-01-04 11:57:50)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono highly welcomed the offer of Singaporean and U.S. air forces to help find the Adam Air aircraft that went missing on Jan. 1, 2007.

Group photos: Search of Indonesian jetliner resumed

A search and rescue team member uses a pair of binoculars on an Indonesian military airplane, Jan. 3, 2007 during a search for a missing Adam Air plane. Indonesian rescuers launched new sea, land and air searches on Wednesday for a missing plane with 102 people aboard after initial reports its wreckage had been found turned out to be false. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Bad weather hampers search of Indonesian jetliner

(2007-01-03 14:36:43)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- An Indonesian Air Force surveillance plane was forced to stop the search of a missing passenger plane Wednesday amid heavy rains and windstorm above Sulawesi island and made an unscheduled landing in East Kalimantan.

The propeller of an Indonesia navy airplane is pictured in bad weather during a search the missing plane in Indonesia's Sulawesi island Jan. 3, 2007.

The propeller of an Indonesia navy airplane is pictured in bad weather during a search the missing plane in Indonesia's Sulawesi island Jan. 3, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Indonesia resumes search for missing passenger plane

(2007-01-03 13:32:48)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian authorities Wednesday deployed ships and aircraft to resume searching for a passenger plane that went missing Monday with 102 people onboard, after confirmation that initial reports of finding the wreckage turned out to be false.

Family members of passengers on board the crashed Adam Air Boeing 737-400, weep at Surabaya airport in East Java, January 2, 2007. Twelve people survived when the plane with 102 on board crashed in heavy rain into the mountains of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, a spokesman for the airline said on Tuesday.

Family members of passengers on board the crashed Adam Air Boeing 737-400, weep at Surabaya airport in East Java, Jan. 2, 2007. Twelve people survived when the plane with 102 on board crashed in heavy rain into the mountains of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, a spokesman for the airline said on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Minister: Indonesia's Adam Air plane still missing

(2007-01-02 21:45:04)

    JAKARTA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian transportation Minister M. Hatta Rajasa said on Tuesday evening that Adam Air's plane was still missing.

    At the press conference in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, the minister said the location of the missing plane is still not clear till now.

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