Story highlights No distress call was received, officials say 
 
 The passenger plane lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday 
 
 Villagers reported seeing it crash into a mountain 
 
 Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) Indonesian rescue workers have reached the crash site of a passenger plane that went down in a mountainous area with 54 people on board, a senior official said Tuesday. 
 
 The teams on the ground have so far seen at least 38 bodies at the scene and haven't found any survivors, said Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency. 
 
 Helicopters are being deployed to the densely forested area in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua to begin the evacuation process, he said. 
 
 The airliner, operated by the Indonesian carrier Trigana Air Service, lost contact with air traffic control Sunday about half an hour into a short flight from the provincial capital to a town in the mountains. 
 
 Search planes spotted debris on a mountainside Monday, but efforts to try to reach it on foot and by helicopter were suspended until Tuesday because of fog. 
 
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 The wreckage of an Indonesian plane which went missing with 54 people on board has been spotted in the remote western Papua region, officials say. 
 
 The Trigana Air flight lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday as it flew from the provincial capital, Jayapura, to the town of Oksibil. 
 
 Indonesia's transport minister said the aircraft had been found by local people in the Bintang highlands region. 
 
 A search plane has also now spotted suspected debris. 
 
 Indonesia's postal office has told the BBC that the plane was carrying four bags containing cash, about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000), for villagers living in remote places in Papua. 
 
 "Our colleagues carry those bags to be handed out directly to poor people over there," said the head of Jayapura's post office, Haryono, who goes by only his first name. 
 
 'Pray together' 
 
 The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew. It is not yet known if anyone survived. 
 
 It took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21, but lost contact with air traffic controllers half an hour later. 
 
 Bintang Mountains Regency Police Chief Yunus Wally told the Antara news agency that the debris was seen near a waterfall by a search plane on Monday, and that ground teams were preparing to head to the area. 
 
 Henry Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's national search and rescue agency, told AP news agency that "smoke was still billowing" from the debris spotted by their plane. He said bad weather and rugged terrain were hampering efforts to reach the site. 
 
 Villagers had earlier told officials that a plane had crashed into a mountain. 
 
 Indonesian President Joko Widodo has expressed his condolences on Twitter and called for the country to "pray together" for the victims. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Family members have been waiting for news of their loved ones 
 
 Oksibil, which is about 280km (175 miles) south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate. 
 
 Bad weather is believed to have been a possible reason for the crash. 
 
 The search plane was forced to turn back on Sunday because of dangerous flying conditions. 
 
 On blacklist 
 
 Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network. 
 
 It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia's certified airlines are on the list. 
 
 Indonesia has suffered two major air disasters in the past year. 
 
 Last December an AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 192 people on board - and in July a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra claiming 140 lives. 
 
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– Wreckage of the Indonesian passenger plane that went missing today has been found, a transportation official tells Reuters, and early indications are that it crashed into a mountainside in remote terrain in eastern Papua. The Trigana Air Service plane, a twin turboprop, issued no distress signal before it went down, reports CNN, and it may have run into bad weather in the mountainous region. The BBC notes that a second plane sent to look for the missing one was forced back by dangerous conditions. Villagers reported seeing the plane crash into the side of a mountain; it's not yet known if there are any survivors.