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Indonesian rescuers connected Friday (January 23, 2026) had recovered the bodies of 10 passengers connected a fishery surveillance level that went missing successful Indonesia’s South Sulawesi state astatine the weekend, the country’s hunt and rescue bureau said.
The ATR 42-500 turboprop owned by aviation radical Indonesia Air Transport (IAT) mislaid interaction with aerial postulation power connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) astatine astir 1:30 p.m. section clip (0530 GMT) astir the Maros portion successful South Sulawesi.
There were 7 unit members and 3 passengers connected committee the plane, which was chartered by Indonesia's Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry to behaviour aerial surveillance connected its fisheries.
The passengers were Ministry unit members.
Andi Sultan, an official astatine South Sulawesi’s rescue agency, said done tears during a video connection that authorities recovered the ninth and tenth bodies aboriginal on Friday (January 23, 2026), adding that the evacuation process was still ongoing.
The bureau said separately connected its Instagram relationship that 10 victims have been found.
Local rescuers antecedently discovered the wreckage of the level successful antithetic locations astir Mount Bulusaraung successful the Maros region, astir 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of the sprawling land nation’s capital, Jakarta.
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), which probes transport accidents, is presently investigating the contents of the recently-found achromatic box, its main told section media this week.
It was Indonesia’s archetypal deadly clang involving the ATR 42, manufactured by Franco-Italian level shaper ATR, successful much than a decade. In 2015, a Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 crashed into a mountainside successful Indonesia’s Papua region, sidesplitting each 54 radical connected board.
A Boeing 737-500 pitchy operated by hose Sriwijaya Co crashed into the Java oversea successful 2021, sidesplitting 62 people.
