Special report: Indonesian passenger plane
missing
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.
The searches would therefore be shifted to areas
south of Manado in North Sulawesi province, Antara news agency quoted Air
Commodore Eddy Suyanto, who is also coordinator of the search and rescue
mission, as saying in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province.
He said a number of naval vessels and air force
aircraft as well as police planes and a plane from the Singapore air force had
been deployed to find the missing plane or what was left of it but none of them
had spotted anything worth reporting.
"If the plane sank in the sea we will rely on the
naval vessels to find it," he said.
He said the searches would be resumed on Friday with
the main focus on areas south of Manado in North Sulawesi.
One of the coordinators at the National Search and
Rescue Agency (Basarnas), Karnoyudho, meanwhile said the search efforts would be
stopped if the plane could not be found in seven days' time.
He said however they would be resumed again if new
clues were found.
The Boeing 737-400 with 96 passengers and six crews
on board which went missing on a flight from Surabaya to Manado on Monday
afternoon was reported still air worthy.
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(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
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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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(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.
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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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(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.
JAKARTA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Ninety passeger
were believed to have been killed while 12 others found safe Tuesday morning
after Indonesian Adam Air's Boeing 737-400 plane crashed at Rangoan village,
Polewali Mandar District, West Sulawesi, on Monday.
