Indonesian Military Plane Crashes With 24 On Board (April 6, 2009)

>Twenty-four military personnel were killed on Monday when their Fokker-27 plane crashed into a hangar at the airport in West Java in the middle of heavy rain and burst into fire, officials said. Turboprop aircraft have made the landing after a regular training flight when the accident occurred at around 1:05 local time (1135 ist) in Bandung, 110 km southeast of Jakarta, an Indonesian air force spokesman said.

Indonesian Military Plane Crashes

The aircraft was carrying six crew, instructors and 17 trainees special forces. The report said that participants in the training parachuting exercise.All people on board dead and the bodies retrieved from the crash site to hospital, media reports said.

There are no reports so far from anyone on the ground injured in the incident. Indonesian news agency Antara quoted the land as a witness who said that the plane crashed before it shakes to the airport hangar. The cause of the accident that occurred in the midst of heavy rain, which will not be.

“There was a thundering sound,” said Budi Wuraskito, director of operations at the airport. “The plane blew than in the hangar, which had some airplanes and helicopters in it.”

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April 6, 2009 | Posted on Bali News
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