Plane crash rescue bid hampered by terrain

Treacherous terrain in Indonesia’s Papua province hampered rescuers’ efforts to reach a passenger plane yesterday that crashed with 54 aboard, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the sprawling southeast Asian archipelago.

Plane crash rescue bid hampered by terrain

Rescuers have yet to detect the plane’s black boxes and news of survivors depends on a team trekking slowly towards the mountainous area, said the rescue official overseeing the search.

“If it collided into a mountain, there has never been a case of survivors. But who knows, let’s wait,” said Major-General Heronimus Guru, operations director at Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency.

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