According
to reports, the small plane is being operated by a local Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, and it was gathered that the plane was on a charity
mission when it went down at an airstrip in the town of Sentani.
The
US-made Kodiak plane was carrying six passengers and was chartered to
deliver humanitarian supplies to a remote district in Indonesia's
easternmost Papua province.
* Indonesian paramilitary police in Tanah Hitam village near Papua provincial capital Jayapura recently
"The
American pilot and an Indonesian passenger were killed in the accident.
The aircraft partly caught fire," Papua province police spokesman
Sulistyo Pudjo told newsmen.
The plane crashed into a fence by the tarmac, he said, adding that five other passengers were injured, two of them seriously.
Indonesia,
which relies heavily on air transport to connect its more than 17,000
islands, has one of Asia's worst aviation safety records.
The
Indonesian region of Papua makes up the western half of New Guinea
Island. People there rely on air transport in the absence of a
substantial road network in the mountainous terrain with vast tracts of
dense jungle.
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