10 Minutes To Landing Time, Plane Carrying 54 People Goes Missing

Villagers see flight TGN267 carrying 54 people crashing into the Indonesian jungle as search teams prepare to hunt for survivors

Indonesian rescue agencies launched hunt after flight TGN267 vanished
Lost contact around 6am GMT after taking off from Sentani airport
Went missing over easternmost Papua region, failed to land in Oksibil
Officials say 44 adults on board, five crew and five children and infants
Search efforts hindered by bad weather over mountainous Papua region
Trigana Air is banned from operating in EU airspace due to poor safety

A passenger plane that vanished over Indonesia's Papua region with 54 people on board today has been found crashed by local villagers, a transport official has reported.

The Trigana Air plane, flight number TGN267, disappeared in bad weather over the mountainous easternmost region.

It lost contact with air controllers 33 minutes after taking off, during the 45-minute journey between Sentani airport in the region's capital Jayapura and the Oksibil settlement, located to the south of the city.

Officials have reported that the wreckage of the plane has been found, by residents in the village of Okbape.

SOURCE: DAILY MAIL UK