W. Java Military Plane Crash Kills 24: Military

JAKARTA ~ Twenty-four Indonesian military personnel are believed to have died when their training aircraft crashed at an airbase in West Java on Monday, an air force spokesman said.

The Fokker 27 plane was making a landing during a regular training flight when it crashed and burst into flames at 1:05pm in Bandung, 110 kilometers southeast of Jakarta, spokesman Bambang Sulistio said.

“The evacuation process is still underway but I don’t think there’ll be any survivors. I predict all 24 people aboard are dead as the plane was completely destroyed,” he said.