Cessna plane found, all passengers killed

Monday, August 27 2012 - 02:23 AM WIB

A rescue team has found a small Cessna plane which has disappeared in East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan since Friday, Investor Daily reported.

The deputy chief of the East Kalimantan police office, Brigadier General Rusli Nasution said on Sunday that the small aircraft was found by the rescue team at 5.25 PM local time on Sunday.

He said that the aircraft crashed and burned in the slope of the Mount Mayang in East Kutai Regency.

Peter John Elliot, an Australian geologist who chartered the aircraft, Marshal Basir, the pilot and two other passengers were all killed in the crash. (*)

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