"The team arrived here in the afternoon and is now in the field to inspect the location of the crash," PT Angkasa Pura I`s El Tari airport duty manager, Gabriel Lusi Keraf, said here on Tuesday.
"The team consists of 13 members including from the ministry of transportation and Merpati as well as airport authorities. They are now still in the field," Keraf said.
Merpati`s M60 plane carrying 46 passengers made a hard landing at the airport at 9.52am local time on Monday.
None of the passengers died in the incident but 20 of them had been wounded, five of them seriously including the pilot who is now still being treated at a local hospital.
The plane flew from Ngada in Bajawa, central Flores to Kupang before it had an accident.
reportingby bernadus tukan
(H-YH/F001)
Editor: Jafar M Sidik
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