Trigana Air Service Flight 267 Reported crashed into Mountain

Trigana Air Service 267 took off from Sentani Airport in Jayapura and was scheduled to land in Oksibil at 3:16 p.m. It did not arrive at its destination. Local villagers reported seeing the plane crash into a mountain in the Okbape district of Pegunungan Bintang Municipality in Papua. There were 49 passengers and 5 crew aboard the domestic flight. The search was cancelled due to weather conditions and nightfall.

Originally owned by Resort Air and Trans States Airlines as N421TE, the 27-year-old ATR-42 turboprop had a wheel separation incident in its history before it began flying for Trigana.

Trigana Air is on the EU blacklist

Basarnas, the National Search and Rescue Agency (Indonesian: Badan SAR Nasional or Basarnas) reported this:

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