An Indonesian airliner crashed in the country's Sulawesi Island due a storm, reports said on Tuesday.

Local radio station El-Shinta quoted the local mayor Ali Bahal as saying that at least 90 people were killed.

102 people were on board, reports quoted another local official as saying.

Officials said contact with the Boeing 737-400, which was on a domestic flight from Java Island to Sulawesi when it disappeared late on Monday night, was lost about an hour before it was due to land.

The radio station reported that that the plane had crashed in a mountainous region in Polewali, west Sulawesi province.