Youths walk on a rice field as the site where an Indonesian air force plane crashed is seen in the background in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 21, 2012. Picture: AP Source: AP
RESCUERS have resumed searching burned-out military houses struck by an Indonesian air force plane that crashed killing 11 people.
The dead are two children, their grandmother and an aunt in one of the eight damaged homes, and the seven people on the plane - the pilot, co-pilot and five trainees.
The Fokker F-27 was making a routine training flight yesterday when it crashed in a neighbourhood in eastern Jakarta about 1.5 kilometres from the runway where it was trying to land, the military said.
Raging orange flames jumped several metres. Eleven people were injured.
Six of the people on the plane died instantly. The co-pilot died in hospital, air force spokesman Rear Adm. Azman Yunus said.
The aircraft, which was built in 1958 and has been used by Indonesia's air force for the past 35 years with 14,900 flight hours, was declared airworthy before it took off for its second training flight of the day under clear skies, he said.
It was not equipped with black box.
Rescuers were searching for more possible victims among the rubble of the houses.
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