Search begins for aircraft carrying 10 people in Indonesia


  • World
  • Monday, 05 Oct 2015

Members of the Indonesian Air Force walk near an Aviastar aircraft, ready to assist in the search for the airline's missing Twin Otter turboprop aircraft at Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi October 3, 2015. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities began a search on Friday for an Aviastar airline Twin Otter turboprop aircraft with 10 people on board that went missing on a domestic flight on Sulawesi island.

Indonesia has had three major air crashes over the past year, including an AirAsia flight that went down in the sea on a flight from Surabaya to Singapore in late December, killing all 162 people aboard.

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