Search for missing plane intensified

Fri, 15 Apr 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAYAPURA, Papua: National Police Headquarters deployed at
least 15 Mobile Brigade troopers on Thursday to search for a
missing plane in Papua.

Besides the additional troopers, police headquarters also
dispatched a helicopter and a Skytruck police aircraft to assist
in the search, said Maj. Yayok Endari Sunar, the chief of the
Search and Rescue Unit in Papua.

The search has been underway since a GT Air Twin Otter
aircraft went missing between Timika and Enarotali Paniai on
Tuesday. Seventeen people were on board the commercial aircraft.
If the ill-fated plane is not found within one week, the search
effort will be called off, said Yayok. -- JP

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