Thursday, May 10, 2012

Indonesian rescuers find bodies near wreckage of jet that 'fell' from sky



Indonesian saviors told Thursday that they had determined trunks near the wreckage of a Russian-made airliner that vanished from radar south of the capital Jakarta.The crowd of a helicopter looking for the jet had earlier recognized rubbles on the edge of a drop in a grand area at 5,500 feet, a senior saving official told.The Sukhoi Superjet-100, carrying up to 50 people, lost contact with air traffic controllers during a demonstration flight Wednesday, officials told.The Indonesian military & the plane "fell" from the sky, Reuters reported."The airplane crashed at the edge of Salak mountain," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a news conference. "An investigation must be done immediately & thoroughly."Search & rescue teams reached the rugged site on Thursday afternoon local time & saw several bodies, The Associated Press reported. Spokesman Gagah Prakoso told the bodies would be placed in nets & lifted by ropes to hovering helicopters.A photo taken from the rescue helicopter that found the debris appeared to show that the plane flew into an almost vertical wall of rock on an inaccessible part of the mountain.Small pieces of white debris could be seen scattered down an exposed stretch of cliff surrounded by forest. Rescue officials told earlier that the walk to the site would take at least six hours.'Completely ready to fly'The aircraft was carrying Indonesian businessmen, Russian Embassy officials & journalists. Dimitry Solodov from the embassy told there were eight Russians on board, including pilots & technicians.Those on board included eight crew & 42 guests, according to figures from the Russian Embassy.The flight took off from Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma Airport at about 2 p.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) & disappeared from radar near the 7,200-foot Mount Salak in West Java, national search agency spokesman Gagah Prakoso told The Associated Press. It had been scheduled to return 50 minutes later.

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