MAKASSAR: Indonesian authorities are searching for a small passenger plane after contact with the aircraft was lost on Saturday, rescue officials told AFP.
The Indonesia Air Transport turboprop plane left from Yogyakarta and was headed for the city of Makassar on Sulawesi island, carrying three passengers and eight crew members, according to the Makassar search and rescue agency.
Contact was lost shortly after 1:00 p.m. (0600 GMT).
Muhammad Arif Anwar, the head of the local search and rescue agency, said teams were deployed to a mountainous area of Maros Regency, which borders Makassar, near the last known location of the plane.
The search on land and by air involved the air force, police and volunteers, he added.
