Special report: Indonesian passenger plane missing
JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The search team for a
missing Indonesian passenger plane was reported Wednesday of having detected a
significant undersea metal object suspected to be the cabin recording device
known as black box.
National search and rescue team head Bambang
Karnoyudho said a Navy warship had detected the object in the waters of South
Sulawesi using its sonar device.
"So far we have detected a few significant objects in
the area. However, we cannot really be sure before these objects are verified
using a better device," he was quoted by English daily The Jakarta Post as
saying.
The extensive search has been fruitless since the
Boeing 737-400 operated by local carrier Adam Air went missing with 102 people
onboard on the New Year's Day.
Singapore, Canada and the United States have sent
teams to help the search.
Bambang said a US ship with stronger sonar would
start work in the area on Thursday.
"Singapore ahs also sent four sets of detectors to
read undersea signals," he said.
Local authorities have collected 107 pieces of
the plane debris, yet no significant clues were found to locate the
plane.
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(2007-01-16 14:06:05)
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.
(2007-01-14 11:41:25)
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.
(2007-01-13 21:52:51)
JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- A fisherman in Pangkep, Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, on Saturday found a fragment of an airplane's wing and other objects possibly linked to the missing Adam Air jetliner in his crab catching gear at sea.
(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.
