Flight Safety Information August 16, 2015 - No. 161 In This Issue BREAKING NEWS: Indonesian Trigana flight TGN267 carrying 54 people disappears Indonesian plane with 54 people on board missing in remote Papua as night falls 16-AUG-2015 - Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 accident PROS 2015 TRAINING BREAKING NEWS: Indonesian Trigana flight TGN267 carrying 54 people disappears while flying in remote Papua region * Indonesian rescue agencies are hunting for missing flight TGN267 * Lost contact around 6am GMT after taking off from Sentani airport * Went missing over easternmost Papua region, failed to land in Oksibil * Officials say 44 adults on board, five crew and five children and infants * Search efforts hindered by bad weather over mountainous Papua region Indonesian search and rescue agencies are hunting for a passenger plane that went missing over the remote eastern region of Papua, with 54 people on board. The plane, flight number TGN267, failed to arrive at its destination of Oksibil as scheduled after contact was lost with the plane, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS). According to the agency's official Twitter account, the domestic aircraft, belonging to the Indonesian Trigana Air Service, was carrying 44 adult passengers, five crew and five children and infants. But the search efforts are being hindered by stormy weather over the mountainous and remote region. Hunt: Indonesian search and rescue agencies are hunting for a Trigana passenger plane (similar to the one pictured) that went missing over the remote eastern Papua region, with 54 people on board Search area: The plane took off from Sentani airport in the region's capital Jayapura on a flight to Oksibil, located south of the city, but failed to arrive at its destination The Trigana Air ATR 42-300 turboprop plane took off from Sentani airport in the region's capital Jayapura on a flight to Oksibil, located south of the city. But it is reported to have lost contact 33 minutes after take-off, just before 3.00pm (6.00am GMT). The flight between Sentani airport and Oksibil should take around 45 minutes. Transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata confirmed the plane had lost contact and said it was supposed to arrive at Oksibil airport just after 3:00 pm. 'We are not sure what happened to the plane yet and we are coordinating with local authorities,' he told AFP. 'The weather is currently very bad there, it's very dark and cloudy. It's not conducive for a search. The area is mountainous.' The government has reported that it is coordinating with other authorities to implement the search operation. An AirAsia passenger jet crashed en route from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore last December, killing all 162 people on board. The crash prompted the government to introduce regulations aimed at improving safety. Indonesia's president promised a review of the ageing air force fleet in July after a military transport plane crashed in the north of the country, killing more than 100 people. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3199842/Rescuers-launch-search-Indonesian-aircraft-carrying- 54-people-goes-missing.html#ixzz3iySH7zc9 Back to Top Indonesian plane with 54 people on board missing in remote Papua as night falls An Indonesian twin-turboprop aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote, forested eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said, with search efforts hampered by failing light as night falls. "We can't confirm it has crashed. We can say contact has been lost with the plane," BASARNAS chief Bambang Soelystyo told Reuters by phone. "It's a Trigana airline plane carrying 54 people including 5 crew. We are working to get more details." According to the official BASARNAS Twitter account, the aircraft, a short-haul ATR 42-300 airliner belonging to Trigana Air Service and built in France and Italy, was carrying 44 adult passengers, five crew and five children and infants. The plane was flying between Jayapura's Sentani Airport and Oksibil, due south of Jayapura, the capital of Papua province. The agency's Jayapura office was coordinating the search, a separate tweet read as dusk set in the tropics. Air transport is commonly used in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, where land travel is often impossible. It was not immediately clear if search efforts would continue into the night in the densely forested mountainous region where the aircraft was traveling. According to the Aviation Safety Network, an online database, the ATR 42-300 had its first flight 27 years ago. ATR is a joint venture between Airbus (AIR.PA) and Alenia Aermacchi, a subsidiary of Italian aerospace firm Finmeccanica (SIFI.MI) . Trigana has been on the EU blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. Airlines on the list are barred from operating in European airspace due to either concerns about its safety standards, or concerns about the regulatory environment in its country of registration. The airline has a fleet of 14 aircraft, according to the airfleets.com database. These include 10 ATR aircraft and four Boeing 737 classics. These have an average age of 26.6 years, according to the database. Trigana has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, according to the Aviation Safety Network's online database. Excluding this latest incident, it has written off 10 aircraft. Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record and has seen two major plane crashes in the past year, including an AirAsia flight that went down in the Java Sea, killing all on board. That crash prompted the government to introduce regulations aimed at improving safety. Indonesia's president promised a review of the aging air force fleet in July after a military transport plane crashed in the north of the country, killing more than 100 people. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/16/us-indonesia-plane-idUSKCN0QL09A20150816 Back to Top 16-AUG-2015 - Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 accident Status: Preliminary Date: Sunday 16 August 2015 Time: 14:55 Type: ATR 42-300 Operator: Trigana Air Service Registration: PK-YRN C/n / msn: 102 First flight: 1988-05-28 (27 years 3 months) Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 Crew: Fatalities: / Occupants: 5 Passengers: Fatalities: / Occupants: 49 Total: Fatalities: / Occupants: 54 Airplane damage: Missing Airplane fate: Presumed damaged beyond repair Location: between Jayapura and Oksibil ( Indonesia) Phase: En route (ENR) Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger Departure airport: Jayapura-Sentani Airport (DJJ/WAJJ), Indonesia Destination airport: Oksibil Airport (OKL/WAJO), Indonesia Flightnumber: IL267 Narrative: Trigana Air Service flight IL267 is reported missing on a domestic flight between Jayapura-Sentani Airport (DJJ) and Oksibil Airport (OKL) in Indonesia. On board are 49 passengers and 5 crew members. The ATR-42 departed Jayapura at 14:21 LT (05:21 UTC) and was expected to arrive at Oksibil at 15:16 LT (06:16 UTC). Contact was lost at 14:55 LT (05:55 UTC). www.aviation-safety.net Curt Lewis