Indonesia Military Plane Crash Into Hotel: More Than 120 Members Killed
All 122 people on board and several others on ground killed as aircraft hit empty residential buildings in Medan city. In a horrific plan crash incident more than 100 people are feared dead on Indonesia’s Sumatra island after a military transport aircraft C-130 Hercules crashed into the side of a building and burst into flames just minutes after takeoff.According to the reports , Twelve crew members and 101 passengers, including military officers and family members, were on board the C-130 Hercules when it crashed after leaving an air force base in Medan, a city of two million.
Speaking to the press reporters,Air marshal Agus Supriatna told that all 113 people on board died. “No, no. No survivors,” he said when asked about the possibility, “I just returned from the site.”Many passengers were likely to be family members of servicemen and women, said a spokesman for Medan air base from where the plane departed. It crashed into a hotel and homes in the northern Sumatran city of Medan.
Indonesia Military Plane Crashes Into Houses And Hotel
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At least one child has been confirmed as dead.Search and rescue officials said that three people were killed on the ground when the 51-year-old Hercules plane crashed two minutes after takeoff from the Soewondo air force base en route to drop off supplies to the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea. It went down near a newly built residential area, hitting a massage parlour and a small hotel.After the crash ,Police and rescue teams had pulled 84 bodies from the wreckage by Tuesday night and transported them to Adam Malik general hospital in Medan to be identified.
It has been reported that rescuers were still trying to get into the ruined massage parlour, a three-storey building, and they did not know whether there were people inside.Dramatic pictures of the scene showed the wreckage of the aircraft in flames and a crowd of onlookers amid the plumes of thick smoke.
The doomed aircraft was built in 1964 and had just taken off from a nearby air force base. It was on its way to Tanjung Pinang, a city in the in Riau Islands off Sumatra, when it ran into trouble.Witnesses told Reuters the aircraft appeared to explode shortly before it crashed. The pilot had asked to return to base “so there must have been a problem,” Supriatna said.It is too early to know exactly how many people were killed in the disaster, or what caused it.
According Reuters, citing the Aviation Safety Network, there have been 10 fatal crashes involving Indonesian military or police aircraft over the last decade