INDONESIA: An Indonesian rescue team hikes through rough terrain in search of the crash site of the Russian Sukhoi aircraft

Record ID: 862140

  • Title: INDONESIA: An Indonesian rescue team hikes through rough terrain in search of the crash site of the Russian Sukhoi aircraft
  • Date: 11th May 2012
  • Summary: LOJI VILLAGE, BOGOR, WEST JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (MAY 10, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RESCUE TEAM RESCUERS WALKING THROUGH FOREST FEET MAN USING BINOCULAR RESCUE TEAM WALKING MEMBER OF RESCUE TEAM HOLDING ROPE ROPES MEMBER OF RESCUE TEAM USING BINOCULAR RESCUERS ON BRIEFING (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) HEAD OF RESCUER GROUP, DWI WIJANARKO SAYING: "We already reached the surrounding peak area but we cannot see the target due to bad weather, so we have decided to get back." VARIOUS OF RESCUE TEAM WALKING BACK TO BASE
  • Embargoed: 26th May 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Indonesia
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  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA92I6G7GZO8I8DWZIM7VOU1FLP
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  • Story Text: Indonesian rescue teams searched a mountain area south of the Indonesian capital for the crash site of the Russian Sukhoi aircraft on Thursday (May 10) after its wreckage was spotted strewn in the area.
    About 50 people were on board the plane which crashed during a demonstration flight. There was no sign of survivors.
    A picture taken from the rescue helicopter that found the debris and seen by Reuters appeared to show that the plane flew into an almost vertical wall of rock on an inaccessible part of the mountain.
    Small pieces of white debris could be seen scattered down an exposed stretch of cliff surrounded by forest.
    It would take at least six hours to walk to the site, rescue officials said.
    However, rescuers were forced to return to base as the weather worsened.
    "We already reach surrounding peak area but we cannot see the target due bad weather, so we decide to get back," Dwi Wijanarko, head of the rescue group said.
    The Superjet 100 aircraft, Russia's first all-new passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union, went missing on Wednesday about 40 miles (64 km) south of Jakarta. It was carrying Indonesian businessmen, eight Russians, including embassy officials, pilots and technicians, and journalists.
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