No survivors in Kalimantan plane crash

JAKARTA (JP): The Search and Rescue (SAR) team said yesterday that all 11 people on board a Britten Normen BN-2A plane that crashed onto the slope of Mt. Saran in West Kalimantan on Monday were killed.

The team recovered six bodies from the crash site yesterday and were still looking for the other five through the wreckage, said Endang Widayat of the PT Dirgantara Air Service (DAS), the operator of the plane.

The search efforts were hampered by bad weather, he added.

The bodies were to be brought over to Sintang, the nearest town from the crash site, for identification.

The two engine propeller plane was flying to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan, when it crashed in a mountainous area some 30 nautical miles east of its destination in Nanga Pinoh to the east on Monday.

Minister of Transportation Haryanto Danutirto visited the crash site yesterday, Antara reported. (prs)