Why Indonesia Has So Many Plane Crashes

The Indonesian province of Papua is one of the world’s most remote regions, a place so forbidding that scientists regard it as a “lost world” famous for its many undiscovered animal species. On Sunday, the area played host to human tragedy on a large scale. Hours after air traffic control declared that a Trigana Air flight traveling between the Papuan cities of Jayapura and Oksibil was missing, local villagers