Rescuers find 18 bodies in Indonesia plane crash

The bodies of all 18 people who were on board a plane that crashed into the jungle-covered mountains of western Indonesia were recovered from the wreckage Saturday, rescuers said.

The Spanish-designed CASA C-212 lost contact with air traffic control early Thursday while flying from North Sumatra to Aceh province. Minutes later, it sent out a distress signal, then dropped off the radar.

Rugged, forested terrain and bad weather had prevented rescuers from reaching the crash site by foot, and the wreckage was spotted from a helicopter Friday in the Leuser mountains at an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).

Early Saturday, 13 rescuers were lowered from a helicopter by rope to the crash site, following two others who had reached the site just before darkness fell Friday.

"They found the bodies still tied with the seat belt on their seats," Sunarbowo Sandi, head of the local search-and-rescue team, told The Associated Press from his monitoring post in a village near the crash site in the Bahorok region, about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Jakarta.

The bodies included all 14 passengers and four crew members. Four of the dead were children.

Hopes had been raised that there may be survivors after the aircraft was spotted intact with one of its doors open, and rescuers dropped food and medicine down to the crash site.

The victims' relatives, who had been waiting for information, broke down in tears when they learned that their loved ones were found dead.

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Four killed in small plane crash in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Four people were killed on Wednesday when a single-engine plane crashed near a small airport on the Utah-Nevada border, officials said.
The plane went down on Wednesday afternoon near Wendover, Utah, when extreme wind conditions were reported in the area, Tooele County Emergency Management spokesman Wade Matthews said.
"We know the pilot in the Cessna 172 was on approach for landing at the Wendover airport when he ran into a weather situation and crashed into the dirt. All four people on board were killed," Matthews told Reuters.
"They called indicating they were going to land and once they got in and parked they wanted to be fueled up," said James Petersen, director of airports for Tooele County, Utah.
Petersen says a witness saw the plane having difficulty when it approached the airport runway.
"He saw a puff of dust when it hit the ground. It didn't catch fire it just hit the ground at a pretty steep angle," said Petersen.
The Wendover Airport remained open while emergency crews and investigators cordoned off the crash site north of the runway.
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