An Air Niugini aircraft had to abort take-off yesterday amid an engine failure.
Photo: Koro Vaka'uta / RNZ
EMTV reports that PX9260 was being chartered by Papua New Guinea's Department of Finance for a flight to Kieta in Bougainville.
PNG's national carrier has yet to issue a statement on the incident.
However, it comes less than a week after the crash-landing of an Air Niugini 737 airplane into a lagoon in Micronesia, an incident in which one person died.
People who were on board an Air Niugini plane that crashed into the sea in Chuuk on Friday are demanding answers, as investigations get underway. Video, Audio
The body of a male passenger from the Air Niugini flight that crashed in the FSM on Friday has been found in the Chuuk Lagoon.
Papua New Guinea's national carrier says a search continues in Micronesia for a passenger missing after last Friday's crash landing of an Air Niugini flight.
Authorities in the FSM are trying to locate a passenger who escaped the aircraft which landed in the lagoon next to Chuuk International Airport on Friday.
All of the passengers and crew that were on board an Air Niugini plane that crashed into a lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia are reported to be safe.
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