Official denies reports of found plane

Jakarta: An Indonesian air force official said on Tuesday that reports that a commercial airliner that crashed on Monday had been found were false.

Officials said earlier that the wreckage of the Adam Air plane, carrying 102 people, was found after it crashed into mountains during heavy rains. Reports also said that there were twelve survivors.

"The location has not been found. We apologise that the news that we conveyed was not true," said First Air Marshal Eddy Suyanto, commander of Hasanuddin air base in Makassar.

The Adam Air plane lost contact with the ground on Monday about an hour before it was due to land in Manado in North Sulawesi, the transport ministry said.

There were 96 passengers and six crew on board the plane.