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印度尼西亚东部一架国内航班客机周日（8月16日)失联后，因天气恶劣，搜寻受阻暂停，将于周日早晨重新开始。
印尼交通部发言人说，这架隶属Trigana航空公司的客机从巴布亚首府查亚普拉飞往欧克西比勒途中与地面失去联络。
这架客机上有54人，包括5名机组人员和5名儿童，当地时间16日下午2点21分起飞，34分钟后失联。这条短途航线飞行时间总共42分钟。
路透社周日引述印尼国家搜救署称，“目前与这架飞机失去联络。我们还不能证实这架飞机坠毁。”
《雅加达环球时报》网站报道，这架ATR42－300双引擎涡桨客机原计划下午3点55分在欧克西比勒机场着陆。巴布亚警方证实这架飞机失踪，但是没有提供进一步细节。
欧克西比勒地区当时天气恶劣，狂风暴雨，能见度很低。巴布亚地区多山，丛林密布。
国家搜救署署长Susanto对记者表示，失联后曾派一架飞机上天搜寻，由于天黑和恶劣天气折返，搜寻暂停，周一早晨恢复。
据航空安全网（ASN）统计，Trigana航空公司自1991年开业以来发生过14起重大事故，损失飞机10架。
该航空公司2007年被列入欧盟的禁飞名单。
过去一年里，印尼的航空公司发生过两起严重空难。去年12月，一架AirAsia国际航班客机从印尼苏拉巴亚飞往新加坡途中坠毁，机上192人全部遇难。
今年７月，一架印尼军用运输机在苏门答腊的梅兰岛一个居民区坠落，140多人遇难。
An Indonesian plane with 54 people on board is missing in Papua region, officials have said.
Contact was lost with the Trigana Air ATR 42 turboprop just before 15:00 local time (06:00 GMT) after take-off from Sentani airport in the regional capital Jayapura.
The plane was flying to the town of Oksibil in the south of the region.
A search for the missing plane was suspended at dusk and will continue on Monday morning, rescuers said.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the plane crashed with weather the likely cause.
The aircraft was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew.
It took off from Sentani at 14:21 and contact was lost at 14:55.
Transport ministry spokesman Julius Barata confirmed the disappearance.
“We are not sure what happened to the plane yet and we are co-ordinating with local authorities,” he told AFP news agency.
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency later said the search had been suspended at nightfall because of limited visibility and would resume at 06:00 local time on Monday (21:00 GMT on Sunday).
Officials later said a second plane had been sent to look for the missing one, but was turned back because of the bad weather.
“Oksibil is a mountainous area where weather is very unpredictable,” Trigana Air director of operations Beni Sumaryanto told AFP. “It can suddenly turn foggy, dark and windy without warning.
“We strongly suspect it’s a weather issue. It is not overcapacity, as the plane could take 50 passengers.”
Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia’s certified airlines are on the list.
Correspondents say Indonesia has a patchy aviation record overall, with two major crashes in the past year.
An Indonesia AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea last December while on an international flight from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 192 people on board.
A military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra in July, killing more than 140 people including several on the ground.