Hercules C-130 Air Force crashed in Medan, 142 people were killed

Hercules C-130 Air Force crashed in Medan, 142 people were killed

Some civilians said they had been a passenger Hercules military transport aircraft with pay, but the military denied it and said it had sent a team to investigate.

One, Mun admitted -which Robiyanto cousin, one of the passengers Hercules C-130 Air Force which crashed in Medan on Tuesday (30/6) - said his cousin boarded the ill-fated Hercules to pay despite not know exactly how.

"Because they cost less, and we have military families," said Mun, who was also a military Hercules plane.

"I myself have climbed Hercules, from Tanjung Pinang to Natuna. It was bayarnya Rp. 500,000," said Mun.

Joko Widodo President ordered the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces in order to fundamentally change the main tool Indonesian defense system.

It was stated President Jokowi day after the Hercules C-130 crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, which has so far left at least 142 people died.

"The system of procurement should be modified, this momentum. It should not be longer simply buy weapons but also shifted to the modernization of weapons systems," the president said.

The president also said the procurement of major defense system should be directed to the independence of the domestic defense industry.

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Jokowi president also said, "I want to strengthen the system TNI zero accident or crash nil for the use of defense equipment."

"So that we can completely control the readiness of defense equipment," said Jokowi.

In his statement, President Jokowi also ordered a thorough investigation into the crash incident.

"I want to strengthen the system TNI zero accident or crash nil for the use of defense equipment."

The presidential statement delivered to reporters on the sidelines of the anniversary of the 69th Police Command Headquarters Field Brimob, Depok, West Java, on Wednesday (01/7).

High operational readiness

According to the president, the whole defense equipment owned by Indonesia must always be in high operational readiness.

"Aircraft, transport aircraft, warships, submarines, helicopters and officers up to and soldiers who mengawakinya should be in a high operational readiness," he said.

C-130 Hercules aircraft, manufactured in 1964, leaving the airfield Abdul Rachman Saleh, Malang, East Java, on Tuesday (30/06) towards Lanud Adisucipto, Yogyakarta.

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So far the police team and the relevant authorities in the Adam Malik Hospital, Medan, continues to identify the 59 people of the 142 bodies that have been evacuated from the crash site.

The plane then flew to the air base Halim Perdana Kusuma, Jakarta, before heading Lanud Roesmin Nurjadin in Pekanbaru, Riau.

Arriving at the air base and air base Dumai Suwondo, Medan, military aircraft crashed while heading Lanud Tanjung Pinang.

All passengers and crew were feared dead.

So far the police team and the relevant authorities in the Adam Malik Hospital, Medan, continues to identify the 59 people of the 142 bodies that have been evacuated from the crash site.

A military transport aircraft belonging to the Air Force crashed near the airfield Soewondo, former Polonia Airport in Medan, resulting in at least 20 people died.

Information about the number of victims comes from the Adam Malik Hospital who received the bodies. That number is expected to grow in view of the aircraft crashed in a residential area.

According to the military spokesman, Fuad Basya, crash incident resulted in two houses and a car on fire. "It is not yet known whether there were civilian casualties. We are still doing the search, rescue and fire fighting. "

Told reporters on Air Force spokesman Air Commodore Badarmanto Dwi said the plane was flying to deliver logistics, with the aim of Tanjung Pinang.

The plane took off at 11:48 pm, but two minutes later the plane experienced a problem.

"The pilot asked RTB (return to base, back to the runway). Then ask the aircraft to turn right, but crashed before it gets in contact with the (base) Medan APP, "as mentioned in the initial statement to reporters.

The Air Force is still investigating what caused the crash.

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Over the past three years, there were four planes belonging to the Air Force that crashed or burned. One of them, the Fokker F-27 that crashed near the air base Halim, 2012 last.

Over the past three years, there were four planes belonging to the Air Force that crashed or burned, including Hercules plane that crashed in Medan.

The track record of the Air Force plane incident

In June 2012, the Fokker F-27 crashed in military housing Eagles, East Jakarta, while undergoing a routine training near the Halim air base. The incident resulted in 11 people died.

Four months later, a Hawk 200 fighter aircraft crashed in Pekanbaru, Riau, when undergoing a routine exercise. There were no casualties in the incident because the pilot could save himself using a catapult seat and the plane crashed in an empty field.

Then, in April 2015, the F-16 aircraft caught fire in the air base Halim Perdana Kusuma. F-16 aircraft was on fire when it will take off along with three other aircraft for security drills Asian-African Conference in Jakarta. Fighter pilot Lt. Col. Word Dwicahyo survived in the incident.

Transport aircraft belonging to the Air Force Hercules C-130 that crashed in Medan on Tuesday (30/06) in residential areas carrying 113 people, all of whom feared dead.

"There are no survivors, I just got out of the scene," said Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Air Marshal Agus Supriatna, the AFP news agency.

He added that 49 bodies had been brought from the crash site to the hospital.

This four-engined transport aircraft carrying more than 100 people said a spokesman for the Air Force.

"According to our data, there were 113 people on board, including 12 crew," said a spokesman for the Air Force, Air Commodore Dwi Badarmanto, told Reuters news agency.

Investigation

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Air Force spokesman said the passengers on board are family members of TNI personnel.

In an interview with BBC Indonesia, Dwi Badarmanto explain the plane's occupants quite a lot, "Because this is personnel transport aircraft as well. So the forces that will carry the mutation or to shift troops."

"Not just the members of the Air Force transport, but also there are members of the Army. For replacement or rolling forces," said Badarmanto.

He said no civilian passengers on the plane, "that there is a military family".

"Yes, if her husband wants to move duty military members, the wife, the family was taken," he said.

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The Air Force Hercules plane had been due to fly to Tanjung Pinang, Riau.

This new four-engined plane while taking off when asked for permission back (return to base) before falling.

TNI is conducting an investigation to determine the cause of the fall of Hercules and for the moment all these aircraft can not fly, said Badarmanto. BBC