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JAKARTA. National Search and Rescue Agency operations deputy Maj. Gen. Hadi L. said Thursday that the Sukhoi Super Jet 100 airplane that went missing on Wednesday and had been found this morning looked intact from up above.
“The [airplane] remains looked intact from up above, whereas it wrecked,” he told journalists in Jakarta.
Hadi said that the SAR team had not yet known about the condition of the passengers.
The Russian airliner was found at 9:15 a.m. by one of the rescue helicopters on a hill of Mt. Salak in Bogor, West Java, at the height of 5,500 feet above sea level.
The airplane was declared missing after it made its last contact with Halim Perdanakusuma Airport at 2:33 p.m. Jakarta time when the pilots requested permission to descend 10,000 feet to 6,000 feet.
The airplane, which carried 50 people includingthe crew, was on a “road show” in several Central and Southeast Asian countries to introduce the airplane by conducting demonstration flights. (Rangga D. Fadillah, The Jakarta Post)
