The wreckage from a Trigana Air ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop is seen on August 17, 2015 scattered among trees in the mountainous area of Oksibil district, in Papua province, a day after it went missing after take-off from Jayapura. - Basarnas/AFP
Jayapura (Indonesia) (AFP) - Rescuers Tuesday reached the site in remote eastern Indonesia where a plane crashed carrying 54 people and large sums of money, and found the aircraft "completely destroyed", a search and rescue official said.
"Our rescuers have reached the crash site," Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, told AFP, adding they arrived at the location in Papua province at 9:30 am (0030 GMT). "The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed."
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