The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) is sending two investigators to the Susi Air plane crash site in Papua, where the plane’s two foreign pilots are believed dead.

“We’ve sent investigators Capt. Chaeruddin, who departed last night, and Capt. Nurcahyo, who took off this morning,” KNKT air transportation safety division head Masruri said Saturday in Jakarta, as quoted bytribunnews.com.

He said the two would join non-KNKT investigator Norbert, who is based in Jayapura, to gather data from the field.

The police earlier reported that a Cessna 208-B Caravan, belonging to Susi Air, crashed Friday in rugged mountainous Yahukimo district on its way to Kenyem from Wamena.

The single turboprop engine aircraft was carrying four drums of diesel fuel, and was flown by two foreign pilots: Australian David Cootes and Slovakian Thomas Munk.

Evacuation is still underway.

From Jakarta Post

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