Rescuers recovered all 18 bodies Saturday from the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain, an Air Force official said.
Air Force chief spokesman Air Commodore Chaeruddin Ray said none of the victims had been identified.
Among the passengers were a Singaporean, an Indian and a Briton working for the Singapore-based company Credent Technology. They were testing new camera equipment on the NC-212- 200 plane when it went down Thursday during an aerial surveillance training mission.
The wreckage was spotted Friday on the rugged, steep slopes of Salak Mountain, 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the capital, Jakarta, but search and rescue teams were not able to reach the site until early Saturday.
Chaerudin said the bodies could not be immediately brought down from the crash site because of bad weather and rough terrain.
Television news showed military rescuers collecting the remains and loading them into body bags.
Indonesia has seen a spate of airline accidents in recent years. It was the second incident involving a NC-212 plane in 2008, after a flight operated by the private Dirgantara Air Service crashed in January with three people on board. (****)
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