JAKARTA: Five people were found dead after a small plane crashed in Indonesia’s Papua province a day earlier, the latest in a series of aviation accidents to hit the country.
The Pilatus Porter PC-6 aircraft lost contact around mid-day on Wednesday, just eight minutes after it took off from Wamena city in the eastern province’s mountainous region. It had been flying southwest toward neighbouring Nduga.
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