Breaking News!!! Indonesian Military Plane Crashes into Residential Area Over 100 People Dead

Date: 30-06-2015 11:56 am (8 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
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 An Indonesian air force transport plane crashed Tuesday into a residential neighborhood in the country’s third-largest city of Medan, killing dozens of people. Television footage showed the wreckage of the downed C-130 Hercules, a crumpled burning car and a shattered building that local media said contained a spa. Smoke billowed from the site and several thousand people milled nearby. North Sumatra police chief Eko Hadi Sutedjo told reporters that the plane was carrying 50 people based on its manifest. He said 37 bodies have been transported to Medan’s Adam Malik hospital and include a child who was probably about a year old. None of the bodies has been identified and it’s unclear how many of the victims are military personnel and how many are civilians, Sutedjo said. The crash of the transport plane occurred just two minutes after it took off from Soewondo air force base. Air force chief Air Marshall Agus Supriatna said the pilot told the control tower that the plane needed to turn back because of engine trouble. “The plane crashed while it was turning right to return to the airport,” Supriatna said. Medan resident Fahmi Sembiring said he saw the gray Hercules flying very low as he was driving.

“Flames and black smoke were coming from the plane in the air,” he said. Sembiring said he stopped not far from the crash site and saw several people rescued by police, security guards and bystanders. Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record. Between 2007 and 2009, the European Union barred Indonesian airlines from flying to Europe because of safety concerns. The country’s most recent civilian airline disaster was in December, when an AirAsia jet with 162 people on board crashed into the Java Sea en route from Surabaya to Singapore. The C-130 accident is the second time in 10 years that an airplane has crashed into a Medan neighborhood. In September 2005, a Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 crashed into a crowded residential community shortly after takeoff from Medan’s Polonia airport, killing 143 people including 30 on the ground.
Medan, with about 3.4 million people, is the third most populous city in Indonesia after the capital, Jakarta, and Surabaya.


Posted: at 30-06-2015 11:56 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- beneno at 30-06-2015 11:59 AM (8 years ago)
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RIP
Posted: at 30-06-2015 11:59 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- nanahenry at 30-06-2015 12:02 PM (8 years ago)
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Pay back time '
Posted: at 30-06-2015 12:02 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie
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- PoliticxGuru at 30-06-2015 12:22 PM (8 years ago)
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RIP
Posted: at 30-06-2015 12:22 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- Activated at 30-06-2015 12:58 PM (8 years ago)
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I might be wrong to say this but judging from the truthful pleas from Australian govt and other for the lives of their convicted citizens who they believe have truthfully been rehabilitated.
Indonesian government turned deaf ears to that and went on to execute them,somehow this could be nemesis catching up with you.
Posted: at 30-06-2015 12:58 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- fearlesspaul at 30-06-2015 01:47 PM (8 years ago)
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That serves them right. next time they will think twice b4 executing repented drug convicts
Posted: at 30-06-2015 01:47 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- femjay at 30-06-2015 05:01 PM (8 years ago)
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So sad ... RIP to the dead ones
Posted: at 30-06-2015 05:01 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- nemacris at 30-06-2015 05:20 PM (8 years ago)
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stupid country.
Posted: at 30-06-2015 05:20 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie
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- nemacris at 30-06-2015 05:22 PM (8 years ago)
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stupid country.
Posted: at 30-06-2015 05:22 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie
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- chealseafc at 30-06-2015 05:22 PM (8 years ago)
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them no reach 10000?.
pay back time.
 Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
Posted: at 30-06-2015 05:22 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- echeeche at 30-06-2015 06:58 PM (8 years ago)
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nawao oh God have mercy
Posted: at 30-06-2015 06:58 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- babafero at 30-06-2015 08:39 PM (8 years ago)
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May is those soldiers that shoot the Drug dealers,, They have to go and meet them for judgement
Posted: at 30-06-2015 08:39 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- osinaoma at 1-07-2015 01:07 AM (8 years ago)
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Oh no DIOS SANTO
Posted: at 1-07-2015 01:07 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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- elchymo at 15-08-2015 07:06 PM (8 years ago)
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RIP
Posted: at 15-08-2015 07:06 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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