Indonesian military plane goes missing

Police and military teams scoured dense jungle on Friday in search of an Indonesian Air Force plane that went missing with five crew and 13 passengers...

Police and military teams scoured dense jungle on Friday in search of an Indonesian Air Force plane that went missing with five crew and 13 passengers, including an Indian, a military spokesperson said.

The 1984 Casa-212 military aircraft disappeared during an aerial surveillance mission on Thursday after taking off from an airstrip just east of the capital, Jakarta, spokesman Chaeruddin Ray said.

An Indian, Singaporean and Briton working for Singaore-based company Credent Technology were the three foreigners on the flight testing new camera equipment, he added.

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Hundreds of police and soldiers began combing the dense jungle at the base of Salak Mountain, about 100 km fromJakarta, nearly a day after the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers.

“The aircraft has not been found. The area is too large,” a police spokesman said.

Indonesia has seen a spate of airline accidents in recent years, including an Adam Air crash that killed 102 and another by national carrier Garuda that killed 21, leading the European Union to ban all Indonesian airlines.

It was the second incident involving a Casa-212 plane this year in Indonesia after a flight operated by the private Dirgantara Air Service crashed in January with three people aboard.

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