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Special report: Indonesian passenger plane
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The propeller of an Indonesia navy
airplane is pictured in bad weather during a search for the missing plane
in Indonesia's Sulawesi island Jan. 3, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo)
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JAKARTA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- An
Indonesian warship equipped with sonar Monday detected "a metallic object" in
the waters of West Sulawesi province but was unable to confirm if it was the
wreckage of the missing passenger plane being sought in the last eight days.
The object was located 1,500 meters below the sea
level and the navy has no supporting equipment to take a closer look.
First Marshal Gatot Sudijanto, a Navy commander in
South Sulawesi province, said the object was detected by the Fatahillah Warship
at the Makassar Strait, some 1,500 km southeast of Jakarta.
The navy is awaiting support from a US Navy ship to
help identify the object, he was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as
saying.
JAKARTA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- As many as 700 personnel from the Indonesian
army, navy, air force and the police were sent to Rantepau in South Sulawesi
province and Mamuju in West Sulawesi province to help search for a passenger
plane which went missing a week ago.
(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.
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Search of Indonesian jetliner
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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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(2007-01-01 20:57:40)
JAKARTA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- A Boeing 737-400
airplane from Indonesia's Adam Air went missing Monday around the airspace of
Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province en route to Manado, North Sulawesi.
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