Trigana Air Service (Jakarta) flight TGN 267 with 49 passengers and five crew members on board and operating between Jayapura to Oksibil in Papua, eastern Indonesia has gone missing today (August 16). The airliner is now overdue and is feared to have crashed in the remote area. The flight was operated with an ATR 42-300 registered as PK-YRN (msn 102). The flight crew lost radio contact with ATC before 1500 (3 pm) local time after taking off from Sentani Airport at Papua’s regional capital of Jayapura (see the map below).
The company started regional operations in 1991.
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Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Sister-ship ATR 42-300 PK-YRP (msn 050) taxies at Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
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