Papua's Plight
THE cause of the crash of Trigana Air IL-257 plane two weeks ago remains a mystery. "Many factors, including human error and airport geographic conditions (could have been responsible)," said AirNav Indonesia Operations Director Wisnu Darjono on Wednesday last week.
Eleven minutes before its scheduled landing at 3:06pm, the ATR 42-300 plane lost contact. The following day, the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) located its wreckage in the forests on the slope of Mount Tangok, some 18 kilometers northwest of Oksibil Airport. None of the 54 passengers survived.
August 25, 2015
THE cause of the crash of Trigana Air IL-257 plane two weeks ago remains a mystery. "Many factors, including human error and airport geographic conditions (could have been responsible)," said AirNav Indonesia Operations Director Wisnu Darjono on Wednesday last week.
Eleven minutes before its scheduled landing at 3:06pm, the ATR 42-300 plane lost contact. The following day, the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) located its wreckage in the
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