Airliner crashes in remote region

A Trigana Air plane that went missing with 54 people on board on Sunday crashed in Indonesia's eastern Papua region, a Transport Ministry official said.

Earlier, media cited Trigana Operations Director Beni Sumaryanto as saying there had been reports of a crash from a village in the forested and mountainous district of Oksibil.

The airliner lost contact with ground control during a short flight in bad weather in the province of Papua, officials said.