Bodies of 18 plane crash victims flown to Indonesian air base

Jakarta: The bodies of 18 people killed when an Indonesian air force plane crashed into a mountain were flown Sunday by helicopter to a military base in the capital, an official said.
Three foreigners _ a Singaporean, an Indian and a Briton _ were among those on the Casa-212 plane, which went down
Thursday while on an aerial surveillance mission, leaving no survivors.
It took two days for search and rescue teams to reach the crash site, on the side of the rugged and heavily forested Salak Mountain, 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Jakarta.
Air force spokesman Chaeruddin Ray said the bodies were being taken to the air force hospital at the Halim Perdanakusuma air base, where they would be collected by family members or sent back home.
29/06/08 AP/PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria

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