Indonesian Plane missing over Papua - Indonesian Air Plane Missing with 54 People onboard

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Indonesian passenger plane missing over Papua region Indonesia's state search and rescue agency has reported that it has lost contact with an Indonesian aircraft. In a tweet posted on Sunday, the National Agency Search and Rescue egency said the Trigana Air flight had 54 passengers on board. The plane was reported to be an ATR-42 model. The passengers include 44 adults, two children, three toddlers and five crew members. According to the tweet, the aircraft lost contact while flying over the remote eastern Papua region at 2:55pm local time. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from Jakarta, said the plane was scheduled to land at a small airport in Oksibil at around 3pm local time (06:00 GMT). Oksibil is a remote town near the country's border with Papua New Guinea. She said reports indicated that "the weather was very bad" in Papua at the time the plane was in the air.