Fate still unknown: Passers-by inspecting the passenger and baggage manifest of the Trigana Air Service plane at the Sentani Airport in Papua province, Indonesia. — Reuters
JAKARTA: An Indonesian passenger plane that crashed with 54 people on board in Papua province was carrying cash worth around US$470,000 (RM1.9mil) for remote villages, a post office spokesman said as rescue teams headed to the mountainous site where it went down.
The Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 plane crashed on Sunday, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the sprawling South-East Asian archipelago.
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