Indonesia rescuers head to mountains to search for plane

Monday, August 17, 2015

JAYAPURA, Indonesia -- Search planes were hunting Monday for an airliner carrying 54 people that went missing during a short flight in bad weather in Indonesia's mountainous easternmost province of Papua, with rescuers heading to an area where villagers reported seeing a plane crash into a mountain.

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