PAPUA: An American pilot died when her plane malfunctioned while she was on her way to deliver coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) rapid test kits to a remote Indonesian village, officials said.

Joyce Lin, 40, had just taken off Tuesday morning, leaving the airport in Sentani in Papua province in a Kodiak aircraft. She was a missionary with the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), serving as a pilot and an information technology specialist.

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