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Adam Air Jetliner Vanishes In IndonesiaJanuary 1st, 2007Jakarta, Indonesia - A Boeing 737-400 Adam Air passenger plane lost contact with air-traffic controllers today and vanished. 
The Adam Air plane is a Boeing 737-400 with 96 passengers and six crew members on board. Adam Air said it was investigating what had happened to Flight KI-574. The plane left Surabaya in Java at 1300 local time (0600 GMT) on a two-hour flight to Manado in northern Sulawesi, a transport ministry official said. Contact was lost at 35,000ft, when the plane was a hour away from its destination, Ichsan Tatang added. An air traffic controller told local TV the aircraft had hit "very bad" weather and would have run out of fuel if it had not already landed. Adam Air, a privately owned airline based in Jakarta, began operations in 2003. © AR News |