Friday, 7 July 2017 JAKARTA: The national search and rescue office of Indonesia confirmed on Thursday that all the five people on board of a small plane that went down in Papua province a day earlier were dead. Spokesman of the office Marsudi said that dozens of rescuers from the …
Read More »Second scare for Regional Express
Friday, 24 March 2017 SYDNEY: A regional Australian airline plane made an emergency landing Thursday after the pilot was forced to shut down an engine, barely a week after a propeller fell off another aircraft mid-flight. The Regional Express (Rex) plane carrying 23 passengers was heading to Sydney when a …
Read More »Sriwijaya Air returns to China with door not closed
Saturday, 25 February 2017 JAKARTA: An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 192 people from China to Bali was forced to turn back after the crew realised one of its doors was not properly closed, the airline said. It was the latest problem to hit an airline from Indonesia, which relies heavily …
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