JAKARTA: An Indonesian military transport plane carrying soldiers and
their families crashed into homes and erupted in flame on Wednesday,
killing at least 78 people, the air force spokesman said.
Television
footage showed the burning wreckage of the Hercules scattered in rice
paddies in Magetan, East Java, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of
Yogyakarta.
“The latest data that I have received is there
have been 78 people killed in the accident. This number can rise
because the evacuation process is still going on,” air force spokesman
Bambang Sulistio told foreign media.
The plane was carrying 11
crew and 98 passengers including soldiers and their families, among
them 10 children, on a flight to the eastern province of Papua,
military spokesman Sagom Tamboen said.
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