Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat islands are beautiful travel destination for visitors who like snorkeling, sightseeing, birdwatching and wildlife watching. This tropical archipelago has got the highest marine biodiversity in the world. Its rainforest and coastal areas are natural habitat of a lot of species of avifauna including paradise birds, and other animals. For accommodation, there are dive resorts, homestays and liveaboard diving boats which visitors can choose. This is a travel journal of Charles Roring.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Merpati Crashed into a River Bank in Rendani Airport of Manokwari

The following photographs, were shot by Agus Nauw- a local journalist using the photo-smart feature of his Sony Ericsson cell phone, are about an accident where shortly after landing, a Merpati jet airplane, Boeing 737-300 with 103 people on board, skidded off the runway and crashed into a river bank just 500 meters from the Rendani airport of Manokwari West Papua. This accident occurred on 13 April 2010 at 11.00 a.m. Although all of the passengers and crews are safe, some suffer from broken bones and bruised all over their bodies.