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Trigana Air safety record called into question

This is a file photo of a Trigana Air Service's ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane. The same type of a Trigana airliner carrying 54 people was missing Sunday, Aug. 16 after losing contact with ground control during a short flight in bad weather in the country's mountainous easternmost province of Papua, officials said. A search for the plane was suspended and will resume Monday morning.

Trigana Air safety record called into question

The Indonesian airline has experienced 14 safety-related incidents since 1992. CNN's Richard Quest reports.

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This is a file photo of a Trigana Air Service's ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane. The same type of a Trigana airliner carrying 54 people was missing Sunday, Aug. 16 after losing contact with ground control during a short flight in bad weather in the country's mountainous easternmost province of Papua, officials said. A search for the plane was suspended and will resume Monday morning.

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This handout aerial photo released by the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on August 17, 2015 shows the wreckage from a Trigana Air ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop scattered amongst trees in the mountainous area of Oksibil district, in Papua province, a day after it went missing after take-off from Jayapura, the capital of Papua province. Rescuers raced on August 17 to reach debris in remote eastern Indonesian mountains believed to be from the plane that crashed carrying 54 people and cash worth almost half a million USD.

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