A plane with 27 people aboard crashed into the sea off the coast of Indonesia's Papua province in the east of the archipelago, with no survivors. The state-owned plane crashed into the sea Merpati half a kilometer from Papuan of Kaimana airport when its landing approach to land amid the rain. According to the spokesman of the civil aviation department, Bambang Ervan, model aircraft in the Xian MA-60 carrying six crew and 21 passengers, among them a child and two babies.
Airport staff and fishermen joined rescue teams on the tasks that have recovered 15 bodies, among which are those of small. The authorities pointed to the weather as the cause of the accident. "The weather was bad because it rained a lot and this decreased the pilot's field of vision. I was also very dark.
Thus, the plane failed to get on track, "said the director general of the Ministry of Transport, Herry Bhakti, told The Jakarta Post. According to Herry, the fuselage broke in two upon impact with the water and then sank, which decreased the chances of any survivors. The police chief Kaimana, Antonius Wantri Julianto said the plane was 15 minutes circling around the airport before starting the landing.
The plane came from the airport in the town of Kota Sorong, also located in the western part of the island of Papua. In 2010, 78 people were injured when a plane of the same company went off the runway at the airport in Manokwari, also in the province of Papua. Indonesia relies heavily on air travel to connect its six thousand inhabited islands, some of which are wooded and very mountainous.
Due to a high number of accidents, the European Union (EU) included in 2007 in its "red list" of 51 Indonesian airlines banned from its planes and landing in the 27-nation bloc. Since then, and in light of improved security conditions, the EU eliminated some of them from the list. 
Airport staff and fishermen joined rescue teams on the tasks that have recovered 15 bodies, among which are those of small. The authorities pointed to the weather as the cause of the accident. "The weather was bad because it rained a lot and this decreased the pilot's field of vision. I was also very dark.
Thus, the plane failed to get on track, "said the director general of the Ministry of Transport, Herry Bhakti, told The Jakarta Post. According to Herry, the fuselage broke in two upon impact with the water and then sank, which decreased the chances of any survivors. The police chief Kaimana, Antonius Wantri Julianto said the plane was 15 minutes circling around the airport before starting the landing.
The plane came from the airport in the town of Kota Sorong, also located in the western part of the island of Papua. In 2010, 78 people were injured when a plane of the same company went off the runway at the airport in Manokwari, also in the province of Papua. Indonesia relies heavily on air travel to connect its six thousand inhabited islands, some of which are wooded and very mountainous.
Due to a high number of accidents, the European Union (EU) included in 2007 in its "red list" of 51 Indonesian airlines banned from its planes and landing in the 27-nation bloc. Since then, and in light of improved security conditions, the EU eliminated some of them from the list.
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