ALL 54 people on board the Indonesian passenger aircraft that disappeared on Sunday died when it crashed into a mountain, officials confirmed yesterday.

Rescue workers only reached the reported site of the crash on Tuesday morning, hindered by difficult terrain and bad weather.

“The plane was totally destroyed and all the bodies were burned and difficult to identify,” National Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said.

But he said the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, the plane’s “black boxes,” were found in good condition.

He said all 54 bodies had been recovered and will be taken to Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, so they can be identified.

The Trigana Air Service plane was flying from Jayapura to the city of Oksibil with 49 passengers and five crew members on a scheduled 42-minute flight when it lost contact on Sunday.