Part of Missing Indonesian Plane Found
Posted on: Thursday, 11 January 2007, 09:00 CST
An Indonesian fisherman netted a piece of aircraft confirmed Thursday to be part of an Adam Air B-737 missing since Jan. 1 off the coast of South Sulawesi.
Speaking to reporters in Makassar, Edy Suyanto, the coordinator of search and rescue team said the piece was identified as part of the right tail stabilizer, and its serial number matched records of the missing aircraft, Indonesia's Tempo Interactive Web site reported.
The Adam Air flight with 102 people on board vanished off radar screens in rough weather on New Year's Day, halfway through a flight from Surabaya, East Java, to Sulawesi island in the northeast.
Meanwhile, the commander of the Indonesian Navy's Eastern Fleet, Rear Adm. Moekhlas Sidik, said the U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears had detected pieces of metal at depths of 5,500 feet in the seas off the Mamuju Strait, the Jakarta Post reported. However, it was not possible to immediately link the metal with the missing aircraft, officials said.
Source: United Press International
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