Twenty-five people were killed Saturday, May 7, in the crash of a commuter plane that crashed in Indonesia at sea in the remote province of Papua. The aircraft, a turbo-propeller-type MA-60 Chinese-made, "plunged into the sea about 500 meters from the runway when it was landing phase" at the airport in Kaimana, said the Indonesian Ministry of Transport.
The aircraft of the Indonesian airline Merpati Nusantara, who was flying to Sorong, a town in the northern province, has "exploded" and disintegrated into numerous pieces by touching the water. "All passengers are dead" and "15 bodies were found in the water," added the authorities, citing "bad weather and low visibility." Due to a high number of accidents, the European Union had placed in July 2007 on its "blacklist" all 51 Indonesian airlines, forbidding them to put their planes in the 27 EU countries.
Several of them have since been removed from this list as a result of improved security conditions. 
The aircraft of the Indonesian airline Merpati Nusantara, who was flying to Sorong, a town in the northern province, has "exploded" and disintegrated into numerous pieces by touching the water. "All passengers are dead" and "15 bodies were found in the water," added the authorities, citing "bad weather and low visibility." Due to a high number of accidents, the European Union had placed in July 2007 on its "blacklist" all 51 Indonesian airlines, forbidding them to put their planes in the 27 EU countries.
Several of them have since been removed from this list as a result of improved security conditions.
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