Indonesian rescuers on Monday said they have found the wreckage of a small plane carrying 10 people that went missing on a domestic flight three days ago.
The DHC-5 Twin Otter plane lost contact with air traffic controllers 11 minutes after taking off in good weather on Friday from Masamba in South Sulawesi province.National Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said the wreckage was found today in a forest in a mountainous area of luwu District.The turboprop plane, owned by the airline Aviastar Mandiri, was on a flight to Makassar, the provincial capital, carrying three crew members and seven passengers, including three children. No distress signal was received.Six aircraft and four patrol boats had been searching for a plane, focusing on the sea between the two southern peninsulas of Sulawesi Island.