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Hunt continues for aircraft
04/01/2007 12:27 - (SA)
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| Indonesian forensic police officers inspect portraits of the passengers of the missing Adam Air jetliner for possible identification purposes. (Tatan Syuflana, AP) |
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Polewali, Indonesia - Indonesian police have sent a helicopter and ground search team to check a woman's report of seeing a missing aircraft flying low in the west of Sulawesi island.
The Adam Air Boeing 737-400, with 96 passengers and six crew, vanished from radar screens on Monday halfway through a flight from Surabaya, on central Java island, to Manado, on the northeast tip of Sulawesi island.
Regional police chief G Haryanto said they would "check all reports if they make sense and we will send a helicopter and an (land) advance team to check" the woman's claim.
The woman, who lives in Polewali in West Sulawesi, said she told police she saw an aircraft flying low around 02:30 on Monday and thought "the plane is flying so low, will it not crash?"
She told reporters she heard an explosion shortly afterwards but did not see any fire or smoke from the direction of the blast.
Reports by officials on Tuesday that the wreckage and some survivors had been found on a jungle-covered mountain near Polewali in the west turned out to be false after rescue teams combed the area.
A massive air, land and sea hunt for the missing airliner resumed on Thursday as the weather improved.
Sapa-AFP
- SAPA
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