98 killed as plane crashes into town
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Your support makes all the difference.An Indonesian military plane carrying troops and their families caught fire and nose-dived into a residential neighbourhood in east Java yesterday, killing 98 people and injuring more than a dozen.
Survivors said they heard at least two loud explosions and felt the C-130 Hercules wobbling from left to right as it careened to the ground. The transporter slammed into a row of houses and then skidded into a rice paddy.
The transport plane, built in 1980, was on a routine flight from the capital, Jakarta. It was not clear what caused the crash, but President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a former army general, promised that a thorough investigation would be carried out.
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