12 year-old boy sole survivor of plane crash
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according to news agency afp nearby villagers heard a loud roar followed by an explosion1 a 12-year-old boy has been found alive in the wreckage of a plane crash which killed eight people in indonesia1 he was found with the wreckage on a mountainside near the border with papua new guinea on sunday morning1 the swiss-made pilatus aircraft he had been travelling in lost contact with air traffic control on saturday afternoon shortly before it was due to land at oksibil airport1 the plane owned by private charter dimonim air had been travelling from tanah merah about 40 minutes flight south to oksibil in the province of papua when it went down1 it was carrying nine people including two crew members1 photos from the scene show the boy conscious and looking at the camera1 an investigation into the cause of the crash will be carried out officials said1 the straitstimes.com reported that indonesia relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands but has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered several fatal crashes in recent years1 papua is a particularly difficult area to reach1 five people died after a small plane crashed near wamena in papua province in july last year1 in august 2015 a commercial passenger aircraft operated by indonesian carrier trigana crashed in papua due to bad weather killing all 54 people on board1