Indonesia’s transport ministry says the wreckage of an Indonesian plane carrying 54 people has been found in the remote western Papua region.
The Trigana Air flight had been reported missing on Sunday after losing contact with ground control during a short flight in bad weather in the country’s mountainous easternmost province of Papua.
It left the regional capital Jayapura for Oksibil in the south at 14:21 local time (05:21GMT), but lost contact with ground control.
Indonesia’s transport minister said the aircraft had been found in the Bintang highlands region of Oksibil.
It is not yet known if anyone survived.
The wreckage was found by villagers, who told officials it had crashed into a mountain, the BBC reports.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew.
An official search was suspended due to poor light.
Oksibil, which is about 280km (175 miles) south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate.
Bad weather is believed to have been a possible reason for the crash.
A second plane, which had been sent to look for the missing one, was forced to turn back because of dangerous flying conditions.
On European Union Blacklist
Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia’s certified airlines are on the list.
Last December, all 162 people aboard an AirAsia jet were killed when the plane plummeted into the Java Sea as it ran into stormy weather on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, to Singapore.
That disaster was one of five suffered by Asian carriers in a 12-month span, including Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which went missing in March 2014 with 239 people aboard during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.