A plane missing over Indonesia with 102 people on board did not send out distress signals or report mechanical problems before disappearing, a top aviation official said today, as search teams intensified their hunt for the Boeing 737.

Air-force planes took to the skies in search of a missing plane and navy ships scoured the sea today, one day after senior Indonesian officials wrongly said a crashed Boeing 737’s wreckage had been found and that a dozen people had survived.

Rescuers expanded their search for a missing plane to the sea today, after senior Indonesian officials mistakenly said yesterday that the Boeing 737’s charred wreckage had been found along with a dozen survivors.

Indonesia’s transportation minister today said rescuers had not found the wreckage of a plane that slammed into a mountain during stormy weather.

Rescuers today found the smouldering wreckage of an Indonesian plane that crashed into mountains during a storm killing at least 90 people.

Officials said today that 90 people on board an Indonesian aeroplane which crashed yesterday were killed, while the remaining 12 on board survived.