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Four bodies found in Papua, Indonesia, cargo plane crash

Radio contact with the plane was lost shortly after it took off on Monday.

By Ed Adamczyk
Indonesian rescuers and military personnel carry coffins containing the body of the victims of a crashed cargo plane as they arrive at Moses Kilangin airport in Timika, Papua province, Indonesia, on November 1, 2016. According to media reports, rescuers recovered four bodies from the wreckage of the DHC4 Turbo Caribou PK-SWW plane that crashed in a remote mountainous area on October 31. Photo by Yamin Muhammad/epa
1 of 2 | Indonesian rescuers and military personnel carry coffins containing the body of the victims of a crashed cargo plane as they arrive at Moses Kilangin airport in Timika, Papua province, Indonesia, on November 1, 2016. According to media reports, rescuers recovered four bodies from the wreckage of the DHC4 Turbo Caribou PK-SWW plane that crashed in a remote mountainous area on October 31. Photo by Yamin Muhammad/epa

MIMIKA, Indonesia, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Searchers said Tuesday they found the bodies of four people who died in a cargo plane crash in Indonesia's Papua province.

The Trigana Air cargo plane, a DeHavilland Canada DHC-4 propeller-driven plane, was found at an elevation of about 12,000 feet in Indonesia's Jawawijaya mountain range, Henry Bambang Soelistyo of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency said. Radio contact with the plane was lost about an hour after it left Timika on Monday morning while traveling to Ilaga; each is a town in eastern Indonesia in Papua province, on the island Indonesia shares with Papua New Guinea.

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The four aboard the plane died instantly, the Jakarta Globe said Tuesday. KNKT, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, is investigating the accident.

A Trigana plane crashed in Papua province in August 2015; 54 people, including passengers and crew members, were killed.

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