Basarnas to Deploy Underwater Vehicle to Find Missing Aircraft

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (Antara) - The local search and rescue agency is sending for a remotely operated vehicle to search for the wreckage of a plane near Moyo Island in West Nusa Tenggara. "We are now waiting for the arrival of the equipment belonging to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) from Jakarta," the spokesman of local Basarnas, Putu Cakra Ningrat, said here on Saturday. Trainer PK-LLC Liberty Type XL2, belonging to Lombok Institute Flight Technology in Mataram, was reported to have lost contact near the waters surrounding Moyo Island at around 11.25 am on Thursday. The aircraft carried two passengers on board - Singaporean Boon Huan Lua, who is an instructor and the pilot, and Jati Wikranto, a flight student from Jakarta. Cakra said the underwater vehicle would search the waters around Moyo Island, while being controlled by an operator on land. (*)