JAKARTA, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Although some debris of
the missing Indonesian passenger plane have been found, the search and rescue
team still can neither locate the plane nor offer suggestion over the most
possible cause of the accident, an official said Tuesday.
The National Transportation Safety Committee doesn't
rule out possibility that the Boeing 737-400 has exploded in the air, but said
there is no evidence to support the theory.
"If only we could find a burned seat, this could lead
us to the first theory," the committee's deputy chairman Frans Wenas was quoted
by leading news website Detikcom as saying.
Authorities have found part of the tail, life vests,
lamps and oil spill believed to be those of the Boeing, which went missing on
the New Year's Day with 102 people onboard during a journey from Surabaya in
East Java to Manado in North Sulawesi.
The debris was found on the waters of Pare Pare,
South Sulawesi province.
The second possibility is bad weather, which
overturned the plane, he said.
The last, the plane suddenly sustained major damages
such as metal fatigue.
"Regardless of the weather, there was a sudden
structural damage in the plane, the tail was gone ... or the wings broke," he
said.
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JAKARTA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Search-and-rescue
teams continued Sunday their hunt for the missing Adam Air plane's black box to
unravel the mystery of its disappearance, Indonesia's Elshinta radio station
reported.
(2007-01-11 15:57:13)
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Indonesia's Search and Rescue service
officers hold up a part of the tail of the missing Adam Air passenger jet
during a press conference in Makassar, on Sulawesi island, Jan. 11, 2007.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A body, the
horizontal tail stabilizer from the missing Indonesian Adam Air airliner, and a
flotilla of airplane wreckage was found Thursday floating about 300 meters from
a beach near the port of Pare-Pare city in southwest Sulawesi.
(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.
(2007-01-08 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.
(2007-01-01 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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