AlQa'dah 01, 1436, August 16, 2015, SPA -- An Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people was missing Sunday after it lost contact with ground control during a short flight in the country's easternmost province of Papua, an official said, according to AP. The Trigana Air Service plane was flying from Papua's provincial capital, Jayapura, to the Papua city of Oksibil when it lost contact with Oksibil's airport, said Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Barata. The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane was carrying 49 passengers and five crew members on the scheduled 42-minute journey, he said. The plane lost contact with the airport nine minutes before it was scheduled to land, Barata said. --spa 13:27 LOCAL TIME 10:27 GMT تغريد
