No survivors in Kalimantan plane crash

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)