Jakarta: Indonesian authorities have resumed searching for an Aviastar airline Twin Otter turboprop aircraft with 10 people on board that went missing on Friday during a flight on Sulawesi island.

The aircraft lost contact with airport authorities on a flight from the town of Masamba about 30 minutes before it was scheduled to land in Makassar city.

Aviastar shared "perhaps the last" photo of missing plane on their Twitter account. Credit:Twitter

The incident is in yet another blow to the beleaguered aviation industry in the archipelago.

Ferdinand Lumintaintang, Aviastar's flight operations officer, said that rescuers were using signals from the pilot's and passengers' mobile phones on Friday night to try to locate the aircraft in a mountainous area.