http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/04/17/11-feared-dead-plane-crash-papua.html
You can read about it by following the link above.
One of our guys keeps track of the number of accidents that occur here. During the past 7 years or so it has kept pretty steady at 1 accident every two months. An accident is any incident that results in damage to the aircraft or injury to anyone involved. So there aren't necessarily any casualties. So far this year, there have been 2 a month.... The increase could be due in part to the increase in air traffic here.
Just the other day one of our pilots, in a cessna 206, had a near miss when a large plane passed through his airspace and altitude way too close by... Had our pilot been in the cessna caravan that has the traffic avoidance system installed, this would not have happened. There is no radar (Actually, there is radar, but no one knows how to use it yet...) at the air-traffic control here in Sentani, the controllers communicate with the pilots by radio on one VHF frequency.
Please keep the pilots here in your prayers!
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Hey, I've noticed in the local church news that you guys are looking for a place to stay for a number of months. If you don't come up with something, we may have a place available for part of your time here. We have a house where our mexican workers stay but they all leave canada in the end of december. It may be available until they return for our spring rush.....not sure when that is. the house is between aldergrove and langley. Just a thought
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