An Indonesian air force C-130 Hercules plane on Tuesday crashed into a residential setting in the country’s third-largest city of Medan, killing dozens of people. The city is home to about 3.4 million people. The wreckage of the downed military transport aircraft aired via television footage shows a crumpled burning car and a shattered building that local media said contained a spa. Smoke took over the site as several thousand people gathered nearby.
North Sumatra police chief, Eko Hadi Sutedjo told newsmen that the plane’s manifest showed it had 50 people on board. He added that 37 bodies have been transported to Medan’s Adam Malik hospital, including a child who was probably about a year old. According to him, none of the bodies has been identified and it is unclear how many of the victims were military personnel and how many are civilians.
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“The plane crashed while it was turning right to return to the airport,” Supriatna said. Medan resident, Fahmi Sembiring said he saw the gray Hercules flying very low as he was driving. “Flames and black smoke were coming from the plane in the air,” he said. Sembiring said he stopped not far from the crash site and saw several people rescued by the police, security guards and bystanders.
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