JAKARTA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The horizontal tailpiece
of an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 missing for 10 days has been found by
a fisherman, said an Indonesian Air Force spokesman Thursday.
The spokesman said the tailpiece was found on a beach eight kilometers south of Pare-Pare, Southern
Sulaweisi.
Announcing the finding of a part of the plane, Eddy
Suyanto, the air base commander in Makassar, told reporters that the stabilizer
was found eight km (5 miles) south of Pare Pare and 300meters from the beach.
Authorities confirmed on Thursday that the one meter
wood found by a sailor on Tuesday belonged to the missing passenger plane Adam
Air, a Metro TV station reported here.
Rescue coordinator Commodore Eddy Suyanto said that
the authorities have matched up the number in the wood to the number of the
missing plane that lost contact on Jan. 1.
The number on the tail of 65C2574676 is similar with
the number of missing Adam Air plane, he said.
The Boeing 737 had 96 passengers and six crew on
board when it was reported missing halfway during its flight from Surabaya on
Indonesia's central Java island to Manado on Sulawesi island on Jan.
1.
(2007-01-10 09:10:55)
BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- An Indonesian
Adam Air missing airplane of Boeing 737-400 has been found after 10 days
searching, declared Indonesia's air force Thursday morning. The tail
horizontal stabilizer of the plane has been found by a local farmer at a beach
eight km south of Pare-pare, Southern Sulaweisi.
(2007-01-09 22:02:10 )
JAKARTA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- An oceanographic survey ship belonging to the
U.S. government is due to enter Indonesian territories Tuesday to join the
search for a missing passenger plane that carried 102 people.
(2007-01-09 22:44:38 )
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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. 9 (Xinhua) -- Another Indonesian naval ship,
the KRI Ajak, has picked sonar signals indicating the presence of metal objects
on the sea bed off Mamuju in Central Sulawesi, corroborating the finding earlier
made by the Navy's KRI Fatahillah in the search for the Adam Air jetliner that
went missing a week ago, a naval spokesman said.
(2007-01-09 16:02:10 )
JAKARTA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A villager in Indonesia's North Sulawesi
province was reported Tuesday of having seen a wreckage of a white-painted plane
but it cannot be immediately confirmed that it was the Boeing 737-400 that went
missing on Jan. 1.
(2007-01-09 12:51:58)
JAKARTA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- An
oceanographic survey ship belonging to the U.S. government is due to enter
Indonesian territories Tuesday to join the search for a missing passenger plane
that carried 102 people.
(2007-01-08 17:51:58)
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.
(2007-01-08 15:15:06 )
JAKARTA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian
Navy Monday used a tiny unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) in the extensive efforts
to search a passenger plane that went missing around Sulawesi island last
week.
(2007-01-07 17:47:34)
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 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.
