A plane carrying 54 people is missing in a remote region of the country's Papuan provinces, Indonesia's transport ministry has confirmed.

A spokesman for the ministry told ABC News the plane was a Trigana Air flight carrying 49 passengers, including two children and three toddlers, and five crew members.

The plane took off from Jayapura at 2:22pm local time (3:22pm AEST) for what should have been about a 40-minute flight to Oskibil.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the turboprop plane about 30 minutes later at 2:52pm, several minutes before its 3:00pm scheduled time of arrival.

Oksibil is about 40 kilometres from the border with Papua New Guinea and is the capital of the Bintang Mountains Regency.

Bad weather has hampered the search, which has been called off until tomorrow.

"We are not sure what happened to the plane yet and we are coordinating with local authorities," transport ministry spokesman JA Baratahe said.

"The weather is currently very bad there, it's very dark and cloudy.

"It's not conducive for a search. The area is mountainous."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/indonesian-aircraft-carrying-54-missing-in-papua/6701198

cc: Lalasticala

deadZONE:

And then....

deadZONE:

Did I just see you laughing instead of mourning with the aggrieved families?

not again ooooo

Airplane accidents are scary, i hate flying but i fly anyway.

Again??

Ahhhh again?

Somany bermuda triangles

L O S T

They should contact Tb Joshua for further directions

These Indonesians with so many plane issues.....Abi dem curse them with ibo bad luck....... .....i pray the plane is found.....

40 minutes flight? Why dem no take bus self?

May God protect the occupants.

http://www.rt.com/news/312571-indonesia-aircraft-missing-papua/

ibe9ja:
40 minutes flight? Why dem no take bus self?

or even keke. Naija mentality