An Indonesian Adam Air missing airplane of Boeing 737-400 has been found after 10 days searching, declared an Indonesian air base commander Thursday morning.

 

The tail horizontal stabilizer of the plane has been found by a local farmer at a beach eight km south of Pare Pare, Southern Sulaweisi.

 

Announcing the finding of a part of the plane, Eddy Suyanto, the air base commander in Makassar, told reporters that the stabilizer was found eight km (5 miles) south of Pare Pare and 300 meters from the beach.

 

The Boeing 737 had 96 passengers and six crew on board when it was reported missing halfway during its flight from Surabaya on Indonesia's central Java island to Manado on Sulawesi island on Jan. 1.

 

(Xinhua News Agency January 11, 2007)