JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A 21-year-old air traffic controller in Palu, who continued to carry out his duty when a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the city in Central Sulawesi on Friday evening (Sept 28), has been killed in the aftermath of the quake. Anthonius Gunawan Agung was a flight navigation service personnel with AirNav Indonesia's Palu branch and he was the air traffic controller (ATC) on duty at the Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie airport during the time of the incident. Yohanes said about 250m of the 2,250m-long runway at the Palu airport was damaged by the quake. AirNav has dispatched a team of 11 comprising air traffic controlling personnel as well as communication engineers from the Makassar branch office to provide flight navigation services in Palu, Yohanes added. Commercial flights may only resume on Oct 4, according to the latest flight notification by AirNav on Saturday afternoon.

Source: thestar September 29, 2018 09:33 UTC