Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province on the slope of a fog-covered mountain and had recovered the body of one of the 10 people on board. ADVERTISEMENTThere 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 pilot was able to control the plane and the crash was not intentional," Soerjanto told local media outlets in Makassar. It was the first deadly ATR 42 crash in Indonesia in more than a decade. In 2015, a Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 crashed into a mountainside in Indonesia's Papua region, killing all 54 people on board.

Source: The Telegraph January 18, 2026 10:35 UTC