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(Kompas.com/Robertus Bellarminus)
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A Fokker 27
airplane operated by the Indonesian Military (TNI) crashed near Halim Perdana
Kusuma Airport in East Jakarta on Thursday.
It is not
clear yet how many people were onboard the aircraft, but local TV station Metro
TV reported that the plane crashed onto eight houses in a neighborhood near the
airport, which is a base of the Indonesian Air Force. The houses were
reportedly torched.
The plane
reportedly had problems while trying to land.
“Yes, it’s
true, there is accident with a Fokker 27 plane at Rajawali Complex, the
Indonesian Air Force housing, in Halim,” the spokesman of the National Search
and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), Gagah Prakoso, told The Jakarta Globe on Thursday.
“I’m not
sure yet how many victims are, but it just happened at 2:45 p.m.”
Fire
engines and ambulances have been dispatched to the location on Jalan Branjangan
in Rajawali housing complex near Halim Perdanakusumah Airport.
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Fokker f-27: (Kompas.com/Doc. TNI AU)
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