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Islands in focus: Weather hamper Aviastar SAR mission
Two days after the disappearance of an Aviastar airline light aircraft carrying 10 passengers in South Sulawesi, a search and rescue team once again returned to home base empty-handed, attributing the failure to bad weather and difficult terrain
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wo days after the disappearance of an Aviastar airline light aircraft carrying 10 passengers in South Sulawesi, a search and rescue team once again returned to home base empty-handed, attributing the failure to bad weather and difficult terrain.
While Sunday's air search was impeded by the emergence of cumulus cloud, the ground search progressed very slowly as most of the search was focused in mountainous areas, according to National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) chief Bambang Soelistyo.
'Tomorrow [Monday], we will focus our SAR mission in the sea, starting from Bua in Palopo [municipality] to the south until Siwa in Wajo regency,' Bambang said. On Friday, a DHC-6 Twin Otter light aircraft, operated by Aviastar airline, lost contact with air traffic control in the provincial capital of Makassar during a flight from Masamba, South Sulawesi.
The Aviastar PK-BRM airplane, which was carrying 10 people, left Masamba's Andi Djemma Airport at 2:25 p.m. local time and was scheduled to arrive in Makassar's Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport at 3:39 p.m.
