18 dead recovered from Indonesia plane crash
Pastor Dale Morgan
18 dead recovered from Indonesia plane crash*
By ALI KOTARUMALOS
The Associated Press
Saturday, June 28, 2008; 7:58 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Rescuers recovered all 18 bodies Saturday from the
wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad
mountain, a military official said.
Air force spokesman 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 Casa-212 plane when it went down Thursday
during an aerial surveillance mission.
The wreckage was spotted Friday on the rugged, steep slopes of Salak
Mountain, 60 miles from the capital, Jakarta, but search and rescue
teams were not able to reach the site until early Saturday.
Ray 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 Casa-212 plane in 2008, after a flight
operated by the private Dirgantara Air Service crashed in January with
three people on board.