Search teams in Indonesia have found the bodies of all 54 people on board a Trigana Air passenger aircraft that crashed two days ago.

Officials said the plane was completely destroyed.

The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane came down in eastern Papua province in heavy rain, strong winds and fog over the mountains of eastern Indonesia on Sunday.

It lost contact during a flight from Jayapura to Oksibil, although the country's Transportation Ministry has said there is no indication the pilot made a distress call.

The wreckage was spotted from the air on Monday seven miles from Oksibil but, at 2,600ft high in the mountains and with bad weather, recovery was difficult.

National Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said: "The plane was totally destroyed and all the bodies were burned and difficult to identify".

He said they would be taken to Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, for identification.

Forty-nine passengers and five crew were on board the turboprop, which was only due to be in the air for 42 minutes.

Five children, including two infants, were among the passengers.

All the passengers were Indonesian, with three local government officials and two members of the local parliament among them.

Four postal workers on the plane were carrying four bags containing US$468,750 (€423,488) in government cash for poor families to help offset a spike in fuel prices.

There was no word on whether the cash had been found.