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FACTBOX-Indonesian air disasters

03 Jan 2007 04:09:12 GMT
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Jan 3 (Reuters) - Search and rescue teams resumed searching on Wednesday for an Adam Air passenger plane that went missing this week with 96 passengers and six crew on board. Reports that the plane's wreckage had been found and 12 people had survived a crash proved false.

Following is a list of some of Indonesia's worst air disasters:

* Sept. 26, 1997 - A Garuda Airbus A-300B4 crashes in a mountainous area of northern Sumatra near Medan. All 222 passengers and 12 crew are killed in the nation's worst air disaster.

* Dec 19, 1997 - All 104 people aboard a Singapore SilkAir Boeing 737-300 are killed when it crashes near the Sumatran city of Palembang.

* Nov. 30, 2004 - A Lion Air MD-82 plane carrying 146 passengers and seven crew skids off a rain-slick runway at Solo in central Java, killing 31 people and injuring dozens.

* Sept. 5, 2005 - A Boeing 737-200 belonging to Indonesian carrier Mandala Airlines crashes in a residential area of Medan, Indonesia's third biggest city, killing 102 aboard and 47 local residents in an inferno on the ground.

* Jan. 1, 2007 - An Adam Air passenger plane flying from Surabaya to Manado with 96 passengers and six crew aboard goes missing in bad weather in the vicinity of Sulawesi island.

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