- Title: INDONESIA-PLANE/BODIES Indonesia retrieves bodies from plane crash site
- Date: 19th August 2015
- Summary: JAYAPURA, INDONESIA (AUGUST 19, 2015) (REUTERS) PEOPLE STANDING AT RUNWAY TRIGANA AIR AIRCRAFT CARRYING BODIES ARRIVING VARIOUS OF AIRCRAFT TAXING ON RUNWAY VARIOUS OF SEARCH TEAM MEMBERS REMOVING A CASKET FROM PLANE SEARCH TEAM MEMBERS CARRYING CASKET SEARCH TEAM MEMBERS PUTTING DOWN CASKET FOUR CASKETS VARIOUS OF HANDOVER CEREMONY IN PROGRESS SEARCH TEAM MOVING BODIES TO HEARSE VARIOUS OF HEARSE AND AMBULANCES DRIVING AWAY
- Embargoed: 3rd September 2015 13:00
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- Location: Indonesia
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Bodies of the victims of a plane crash two days ago in Indonesia were brought to Jayapura for post-mortem on Wednesday (August 19).
The remains retrieved from the forested, mountainous area in the remote Papua Province were flown to the provincial capital before they are returned to their families.
All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in the crash on Sunday (August 16), the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian archipelago.
A search and rescue agency official said four bodies were the first batch to arrive in Jayapura, while 27 bodies are in Oksibil hospital.
Bodies of 23 other victims were still at the crash site and will be transported to Oksibil later in the day, the official said.
There were 44 adult passengers, five children and infants and five crew on the short-haul flight from Jayapura to Oksibil in the south. All people on board were Indonesian.
Air transport is commonly used in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, where land travel is often impossible.
Trigana Air Service has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Excluding this latest incident, it has written off 10 aircraft.
The airline has been on the European Union's list of banned carriers since 2007 due to safety or regulatory concerns.
Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record and has seen two major plane crashes in the past year, including an AirAsia flight that went down in the Java Sea, killing all 162 on board. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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