Indonesia searches for missing plane with at least 10 on board

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Indonesian authorities are searching for an Indonesia Air Transport plane that went missing on January 17, 2026, with at least 10 people on board. The ATR 42-500 aircraft, chartered by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, lost contact with air traffic control around 1:30 pm (0530 GMT) near the Maros region in South Sulawesi province while en route to Makassar from Yogyakarta Province. Three employees from the fisheries ministry were confirmed to be on board. The search and rescue agency suspects the plane may have crashed near Mount Bulusaraung, and approximately 400 personnel have been deployed to the area, though bad weather is hindering efforts. The cause of the incident is currently unknown.

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Three employees from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries were on board the plane.

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Air traffic control lost contact with the ATR 42-500 aircraft at about 1:30pm (0530 GMT) on Saturday.

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The fisheries surveillance aircraft was heading to Makassar from Yogyakarta Province.

factualAndi Sultan, operations chief at the Makassar search and rescue agency

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Indonesian authorities are searching for a missing plane with at least 10 people on board.

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The search and rescue agency suspected that the plane had come down near the peak of Mount Bulusaraung.

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Fisheries minister says three employees from ministry on board plane, operated by Indonesia-air-transport" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="13153" data-entity-type="organization">Indonesia Air Transport.Published On 17 Jan 2026Indonesian authorities are searching for a plane carrying three government workers and at least seven crew members after contact with the aircraft was lost, officials said.The fisheries surveillance aircraft had been heading to ‍Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi, after departing from Yogyakarta Province, before contact was lost, Andi Sultan, operations chief at the Makassar search and rescue agency, told the news agency Reuters.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemslist 1 of 2Indonesia sues six companies over environmental harm in flood zoneslist 2 of 2Indonesia blocks access to Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over deepfake imagesend of listHe said that air traffic control lost contact with the ATR ‍42-500 aircraft, operated by Indonesia-air-transport" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="13153" data-entity-type="organization">Indonesia Air Transport, at about 1:30pm (0530 GMT) on Saturday, around the Maros region ⁠in South Sulawesi province.He declined to comment on the possible cause of the incident.Maritime affairs and fisheries minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono told a news conference on Saturday that three employees from his ministry were on board the plane, which was operated by Indonesia-air-transport" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="13153" data-entity-type="organization">Indonesia Air Transport.Reports on the number of crew members varied. Sultan said there were eight on board, while news agency AFP cited the airline as saying there were seven.The plane had ‌been chartered by Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, ministry official Pung Nugroho Saksono told state news agency Antara.Sultan said the search and rescue agency suspected that the plane had come down near the peak of Mount Bulusaraung, with about 400 ‍personnel, including ⁠military and police units, deployed to search for the plane and those on board, though the effort was being hampered by bad weather.

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