An Indonesian military airplane with 18 people on board crashed Thursday in Mount Salak, West Java. But the fate of the people remained unknown, Antara news agency reported on Friday.
The wreck of the Air Force Cassa which had been declared lost at 11 a.m. on Thursday, was eventually located in the Curug Nangka tourist resort at the foot of Mt. Salak, Sukajadi village, Tamansari subdistrict, Bogor regency, said the report.
A national searching team from Jakarta with the support of security personnel and the local villagers, had been combing the foot of Mt. Salak to locate the wreck.
Villagers heard a loud explosion above the forest at 11.30 a.m., but wandered what it was, a security guard of the Curug Nangka camping site in Tamansari, Bogor, was quoted as saying.
The ill-fated Cassa 212, belonging to Squadron 4 of the Indonesian Air Force based in Subang, was on a flight testing its aerial camera. But it lost contact with its control tower when flying around Bogor.
Source:Xinhua
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