Commercial: Piece of missing jet found in Indonesia
Posted at 1-11-2007 at 03:05 AM
A fisherman found a piece of a Boeing 737 that disappeared more than 10 days ago, the first hard evidence that the plane carrying
102 people had crashed into the sea off northwestern Indonesia, a top search official said Thursday.
The piece of tail from Adam Air Flight KI-574 was recovered Wednesday in the Makassar Strait, 185 miles off Sulawesi Island's coast, said Eddy
Suyanto, the head of search and rescue operations.
Suyanto told reporters the serial number on the yard-long tail stabilizer matched the one given to the search and rescue teams by Boeing.
No survivors or bodies have been recovered, Suyanto said.
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