A health team consisting of 10 medical doctors and paramedics, three ambulances and staff carrying satellite-linked telecommunication equipment on Tuesday morning left for the site of the Adam Air plane crash in a mountainous area in Indonesia's West Sulawesi province.

"The health team from the district's health office and Polewali- Mandar hospital has left for the site of the accident to help and evacuate 12 survivors," Antara news agency quoted Dr Rustam S Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis control center as saying here Tuesday.

The rescue team has until 10 a.m. on Tuesday found the bodies of 90 dead victims or most of the 102 people who were aboard the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 which crashed in Rangoan village, Matangga sub-district, Polewali-Mandar district of the province.

On Monday afternoon, the ill-fated aircraft carrying 96 passengers was bound for Menado, North Sulawesi, from Surabaya, East Java.

The bodies had yet to be evacuated and were still lying at the crash site while the plane's fuselage had disintegrated into pieces, said Suyatno, a National SAR (Search and Rescue) Agency operations staffer, at Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi.

The 12 passengers who reportedly survived the accident were injured seriously. They have been transported to hospitals, reports said.

Efforts to locate the site of the accident and the dead victims had been made by the SAR team and local people since Monday night.

The site of the accident was located about 30 kilometers from Rangoan village or 90 kilometers from Polewali, capital of Polewali Mandar district.

Source: Xinhua