Special Report: Indonesian passenger plane
missing
JAKARTA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. navy ship was
reported Friday to have located the cabin recording devices of an Indonesian
passenger plane that went missing with 102 people onboard on Jan. 1 off the
coast of Sulawesi.
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An Indonesian official points at a graphic during a discussion with US Navy officials in Makassar, Jan. 26, 2007. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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The oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears has
detected pingers on the same frequency of the black boxes associated with the
missing airplane using a Towed Pinger Locator, the US embassy said in a
statement emailed to Xinhua.
"In subsequent sweeping of the ocean floor around the
pinger location, the Mary Sears detected heavy debris scattered over a wide area
and is currently analyzing that debris to verify if it is from the missing
aircraft," it said.
The missing Boeing 737-400 flight number 574 belongs
to the Jakarta-based Adam Air.
Three U.S. citizens were among the passengers.
Having completed its mission of locating the black
boxes and informing the Indonesian government of their location, the Mary Sears
is scheduled to depart Indonesian waters Friday, it said.
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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.
(2007-01-11 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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Backgrounder: Major air crashes in Indonesia since
2004
BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- An Indonesian jetliner
with 102 people aboard crashed into mountains in Indonesia's northeastern island
of Sulawesi on Monday, killing at least 90 people on board.
Following is a chronology of major air crashes in
Indonesia since 2004:
2004:
Nov. 30: A Lion Air passenger plane skid off the
runway and crashed during heavy rains in central Indonesia, killing at least 30
people and injuring 75.
Dec. 23: A helicopter Puma crashed some 17 km from a
small town in Indonesia's Central Java Province, killing 14 people on board.
2005:
Feb. 22: A small plane of the Indonesian police
crashed near the airport of Indonesia's Sarmi regency in the eastern-most Papua
island, killing 14 people on board.
Sept. 5: An Indonesian Boeing 737-200 with 117 people
on board crashed into a residential area in the city of Medan, Indonesia's
third-largest city, killing 102 people on board and 47 on the ground.
2006:
Nov. 17: A Twin Otter aircraft crashed in Papua
province of Indonesia, killing more than 10 people on board.
