Indonesia finds 1 body, wreckage from missing surveillance plane

There were seven crew members and three passengers on board the plane, which was chartered by Indonesia’s Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry to conduct air surveillance on fisheries. The passengers were ministry staff members.

Authorities had initially said eight crew members were on board but later revised the figure. The plane was flying to Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi, from Yogyakarta before losing contact.

Andi Sultan, an official at South Sulawesi’s rescue agency, said local rescuers found the wreckage in different locations ‍around Mount Bulusaraung in the Maros region on Sunday morning. The mountain is roughly 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of ‍Jakarta.

“Our helicopter crews have seen the debris of the plane’s window at 7.46am,” Sultan said.