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Rescue teams have recovered wreckage from a plane that disappeared in a cloudy mountain range in Indonesia with 11 people on board.
The aircraft, operated by Indonesia Air Transport, is believed to have crashed because it approached mountains on Sulawesi island on Saturday.
The turboprop ATR 42-500 vanished from radar at 1.17pm (6.17am within the UK) after being instructed by air traffic control to correct its alignment before a scheduled landing within the province’s capital Makassar.
The plane was carrying eight crew members and three passengers as a part of a maritime surveillance mission.
A rescue helicopter attempting to locate the wreckage site on Sunday morning first spotted a small aircraft window in a forested area on Mount Bulusaraung.
Search teams on the bottom then got here across larger debris scattered on a steep northern slope.
These crash stays were consistent with the foremost fuselage and tail, based on Makassar’s Search and Rescue Office head, Muhammad Arif Anwar.
He told a news conference: ‘The invention of the aircraft’s foremost sections significantly narrows the search zone and offers a vital clue for tightening the search area.
‘Our joint search and rescue teams at the moment are specializing in looking for the victims, especially those that might still be alive.’
Ground and air rescue teams, which total greater than 1,000 people, are battling heavy fog, winds, and rugged terrain to succeed in the wreckage site on Sunday.
Photos and videos released by the National Search and Rescue Agency showed rescuers trekking along a steep, narrow mountain ridgeline covered in thick fog to the crash site.
Indonesia relies heavily on air transport and ferries to attach its over 17,000 islands.
The Southeast Asian country has experienced several fatal accidents lately and has a poor record on air safety.
In September, six passengers and two crew members were killed when a helicopter crashed soon after takeoff in South Kalimantan province.
Lower than two weeks later, 4 people died in one other helicopter crash within the Papua province.
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