Cargo plane crashes in eastern Indonesia; 6 killed

A cargo plane crashed into a hillside in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province Thursday, killing all six people on board, police said.

The Avia Star was carrying food and building supplies from the provincial capital, Jayapura, to the nearby district of Wamena, said Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto, the local police chief.

The bodies of the pilot, co-pilot and four crew members were pulled from the smoldering wreckage of the British-manufactured BAe 146-300, he said. An investigation was under way.

It was not clear …