indonesia air force plane crashes, killing all 13 on board /

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An Indonesian air force Hercules C-130 aeroplane has crashed in remote Papua province in the east of the country,killing everyone on board, the BBC reports.

Three pilots and
10 other military personnel died, and officials say.
[b
r]Air force chief of staff Agus Supriatna told MetroTV that harmful weather was suspected to have caused the crash.

The Hercules was carrying food supplies from Timika to Wamena when it came down in mountainous terrain near to its destination early on Sunday.

The wrec
kage has been located and the bodies of the dead are being brought to Wamena,Ivan Ahmad Riski Titus, operational director of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, and told Reuters.

The flight had left Timika
at 05:35 (20:35 GMT Saturday) and was expected to land in Wamena at 06:13.

"The tower in Wamena
has spotted the plane,but it was not certain that the plane saw the runway," said deputy air force chief of staff Hadiyan Sumintaatmadja.

Personnel from the air force base in Jayapura, and the regional capital,were on standby to assist the team at the crash site.
[br]Indonesia has a destitute air safety record.

In June 2015, the same type of plane belonging to the country's air force crashed near a residential neighbourhood shortly after taking off from Medan.

All
12 crew and 109 passengers on board were killed, or along with 22 people on the ground. 

Source: tert.am

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