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Indonesia says 97 killed in military plane crash
Wed May 20, 2009 3:04am EDT
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian military transport plane carrying more than 100 people on board crashed and burst into flames in East Java on Wednesday, killing at least 97 people, a disaster official said.
The C-130 Hercules aircraft plowed into several houses on the ground, scattering debris and sending flames and billowing smoke into the air, TV footage showed.
Rustam Pakaya, the head of the health ministry's crisis center, told Reuters by telephone 97 people had been killed and 15 injured, including some on the ground.
Earlier Bambang Samoedro, the Iswahyudi air force base commander in Magetan near the crash site, said 90 had died.
"We have identified 105 people. Five people suffered from light injuries, 10 had heavy injuries and the rest are dead," Samoedro said by telephone.
There had been 11 crew and 98 passengers on board, including 10 children, national military spokesman Sagom Tamboen told a news conference, adding the plane had been in good condition and the weather was clear before the crash.
The plane had been on a regular flight from Jakarta to the base in East Java transporting military personnel and their families. It had been due to fly on to Sulawesi and Papua.
"The air force will form a team to investigate the accident," said another air force spokesman, Bambang Soelistyo.
Television footage from the scene showed people desperately trying to extinguish flames with buckets of water.
"About 15 meters (50 ft) of the tail is still intact, but the body to the front is broken and burned," said Suwardi, a sub-district head in Magetan, where the crash took place.
"Earlier we heard blasts. But not anymore, now the plane is still on fire," added Suwardi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. He said the site was difficult to reach because it was on the fringe of a rice field.
The official said the plane had crashed at about 6:30 a.m. (19:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday) around 5-7 km (3-4 miles) from the Iswahyudi base.
Agus Yulianto, an eyewitness, told the Kompas newspaper website the plane appeared to tilt in the air and objects rained down from the aircraft before it crashed.
"Some things were falling, like bolts and axle nuts from the plane. The plane kept nosediving and finally crashed on two houses," said Yulianto.
The location of the crash is near the border of the districts of Madiun and Magetan in East Java, about 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya. Continued...
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