A domestic airliner carrying 31 passengers and crew crashed into a mountain in western Java and all aboard are believed dead, the Indonesian government said Monday.

B.J. Habibie, the minister of research and technology, said the CN-235 plane went down about 50 miles from Bandung on Sunday.A spokeman for the airline said no foreigners were on the plane, which was making a 190-mile flight to Bandung from Semarang in central Java.

The pilot was last heard from about 30 minutes into the flight when he requested permission to land at Bandung.

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