JAYAPURA : As many as 54 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of crashed Indonesian plane which was spotted in mountains.
The Trigana Airlines plane, carrying 49 passengers, including five children, and five crew, was travelling from Jayapura, the provincial capital, to Oksibil, near the border with Papua New Guinea.
There was little chance of finding survivors at the densely forested, mountainous location in Papua province where the Trigana Air plane went down in bad weather during a short flight on Sunday.
It was revealed that the plane was carrying 6.5 billion rupiah (£300,000) in cash to distribute to poor families in the eastern province, a post office official said on Monday.
Last December, an AirAsia passenger jet crashed en route from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people on board.
