August 25, 2015 edition

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.

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July 14, 2015 edition

An enormous earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The tectonic tremors of 9.2 on the Richter scale reached the land of Aceh. In less than an hour, sea waves as high as 30 meters rolled in from of the sea. After engulfing Aceh's shores, the waves devastated half of the province and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
"A quake and tsunami of the Aceh [2004] magnitude can potentially recur in the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra," said Nugroho Dwi Hananto, a geo-technology researcher from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) to Tempo in his office on Friday two weeks ago.

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