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97 killed in Indonesian military plane crash
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-05-20 15:02
But several witnesses described hearing a large explosion while it was still in the air and then seeing it split apart. "One of the wings fell off," Agus Yulianto, a villager, was quoted as saying on the Web site of Kompas newspaper. "Then the plane nose-dived into the houses." The accident occurred 325 miles (520 kilometers) east of the capital, Jakarta. The country's air force has long complained of being underfunded and handicapped by a recently lifted U.S. ban on weapons sales. It has suffered a series of accidents, including a Fokker 27 plane that crashed into an airport hangar last month, killing all 24 onboard. A series of commercial airline crashes in recent years has killed more than 120 people in Indonesia. |
