Bodies of plane crash victims to reach hometowns

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sun, 06/29/2008 8:23 PM | Headlines

The bodies of 18 people killed when an air force plane crashed into a mountain arrived Sunday in military base Halim Perdana Kusuma, Jakarta before they were brought to their respective
hometowns, Elshinta radio reported.

The victims were 12 air force officers and six civilians. They were placed at the air force hospital at the Halim Perdanakusuma air base, where they would be collected by family members or sent back home.

The 12 officers were given a military ceremony before they were transported to their homes in Jakarta, Bandung and Cirebon in West Java, Malang and Madiun in East Java, and Yogyakarta.

Three foreigners - a Singaporean, an Indian and a Briton - were among those on the 1984 Casa-212 plane, which went down Thursday while on an aerial surveillance mission, leaving no
survivors.

The three foreigners are employees of Cresent Asia, a firm supplying digital mapping.

It took two days for search and rescue teams to reach the crash site, on the side of the heavily forested Salak Mountain, 100 kilometers south of Jakarta. (**)

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