Officials are trying to find out whether any Australians are on board a plane which has skidded off a runway into a shallow river while landing in Indonesia.
A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman says investigations are under way to determine whether any Australians were on the aboard the domestic flight from Sorong to Manokwari in West Papua province.
The Merpati airline Boeing 737, carrying about 100 passengers, broke into pieces as it bounced off the tarmac at Rendani domestic airport in Manokwari, West Papua, director general of civil aviation Herry Bhakti Singayuda told AFP.
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"It skidded off the runway and part of its body landed in a river," he said, referring to a shallow waterway about 200 metres (600 feet) from the runway.
"All 103 passengers and six crew members are safe. Some are injured. They have been rushed to hospital."
Bad weather including heavy rain and fog were suspected of playing a part in the crash, he said, although expert investigators had yet to arrive at the scene.
Manokwari Hospital emergency unit nurse Benget Hutagalung said "about 20" people had been brought in with shattered limbs and head injuries.
Witnesses said the left wing broke off as the plane hurtled into trees at the end of the runway.
The body of the plane came to rest with the tail section in the river and the cockpit almost sheered off.
The plane was flying a domestic route from Sorong, also in West Papua province, to Manokwari, a distance of about 340 kilometres (210 miles).
Transport ministry experts from the capital Jakarta were on their way to the rugged province in the far east of the country to investigate the crash, an official said.
