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Indonesian Military Plane Crash 78 Killed

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 12:25 pm

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 Tamb

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Written by: Sajid Manzoor

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