Editorial: Deadly Indonesia Military Plane Crash Kills 4

Brazilian Air Force Super Tucano (Image: Wiki Commons)

By Prashanth Parameswaran

Super Tucano aircraft crashes into house.

An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a house on the main island of Java Wednesday, killing both people on board and two people in the house, an official said.

The Brazilian-made Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano light attack plane was on a routine training flight when it crashed close to the Abdul Rahman Saleh air force base in Malang around 10:45 am local time, air force chief Air Marshal Agus Supriatna confirmed,according to the Associated Press.

Supriatna said the pilot ejected from the plane, but a technician failed to do so. The pilot was found dead over a mile away from his parachute, while the technician’s body was recovered from the plane’s cockpit buried in the rubble. Supriatna added that a man and a woman living in the house died while being treated at a hospital.

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