Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 8968 was a passenger flight which crashed Catastrophe off the coast of West Papua , Indonesia , on 7 May 2011 .

The aircraft involved Cause_to_be_included , a Xian MA60 , was operating Being_in_operation Merpati Nusantara Airlines ' scheduled domestic service from Sorong to Kaimana , both in West Papua .