Indonesian Plane Carrying About Half A Million Dollars When It Crashed!

 The passenger ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop plane which crashed with 54 people on board, including four post office workers, on Sunday, August 16,  in east Indonesian Papua Province, was reported to be carrying 6.5 billion rupiah, equivalent to $470,000 in cash, meant  for distribution to poor families in Pegunungan Bintang in the province. 

The ill-fated plane which was operated by Trigana Air, an Indonesian carrier lost contact with air traffic control before 3:00 pm on Sunday, after taking off from Jayapura, the capital of Papua Province. It had 44 adult passengers, five children and five crew members on the flight scheduled to take about 45 minutes.

Local officials said a search team located the wreckage of the Trigana Air plane near the city of Oksibil in Papua Province and rescuers are on the crash site.

The plane went missing 33 minutes after takeoff from the provincial capital of Jayapura, and 10 minutes before reaching Oksibil.