Search underway for plane carrying 102 in Indonesia
Indonesia focussed rescue efforts on Sulawesi island on Tuesday after an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 plane went missing with 96 passengers and six crew on board.
Contact with the plane was lost on Monday when it was at an altitude of 35,000 feet, about an hour before it was due to land in Manado in North Sulawesi, said Tatang Ikhsan, director general at the transport ministry.
Ikhsan said on Elshinta radio the flight had originated in Jakarta with a stop in Surabaya on Java island. It had left Surabaya at 1 p.m. (0600 GMT) and had been...
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