{"id":53880,"date":"2015-07-01T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53880"},"modified":"2015-07-01T02:04:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:04:05","slug":"indonesia-military-transport-plane-crashes-in-medan-37-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/01\/indonesia-military-transport-plane-crashes-in-medan-37-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia military transport plane crashes in Medan; 37 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.666667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/479052154?et=Avao2n53Tdthp5YR-LC3jA&#038;viewMoreLink=off&#038;sig=aBkWTbrOY_nomAWj9w-NOmeJuORabBLX9BHl5ypmtxI=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/479052154\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>MEDAN, Indonesia \u2014 An Indonesian air force transport plane crashed Tuesday into a residential neighborhood in the country&#8217;s third-largest city of Medan, killing dozens of people.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed the wreckage of the downed C-130 Hercules, a crumpled burning car and a shattered building that local media said contained a spa. Smoke billowed from the site and several thousand people milled nearby.<\/p>\n<p>North Sumatra police chief Eko Hadi Sutedjo told reporters that the plane was carrying 50 people based on its manifest.<\/p>\n<p>He said 37 bodies have been transported to Medan&#8217;s Adam Malik hospital and include a child who was probably about a year old.<\/p>\n<p>None of the bodies has been identified and it&#8217;s unclear how many of the victims are military personnel and how many are civilians, Sutedjo said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash of the transport plane occurred just two minutes after it took off from Soewondo air force base.<\/p>\n<p>Air force chief Air Marshall Agus Supriatna said the pilot told the control tower that the plane needed to turn back because of engine trouble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plane crashed while it was turning right to return to the airport,&#8221; Supriatna said.<\/p>\n<p>Medan resident Fahmi Sembiring said he saw the gray Hercules flying very low as he was driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flames and black smoke were coming from the plane in the air,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sembiring said he stopped not far from the crash site and saw several people rescued by police, security guards and bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record. Between 2007 and 2009, the European Union barred Indonesian airlines from flying to Europe because of safety concerns. The country&#8217;s most recent civilian airline disaster was in December, when an AirAsia jet with 162 people on board crashed into the Java Sea en route from Surabaya to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The C-130 accident is the second time in 10 years that an airplane has crashed into a Medan neighborhood. In September 2005, a Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 crashed into a crowded residential community shortly after takeoff from Medan&#8217;s Polonia airport, killing 143 people including 30 on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Medan, with about 3.4 million people, is the third most populous city in Indonesia after the capital, Jakarta, and Surabaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com MEDAN, Indonesia \u2014 An Indonesian air force transport plane crashed Tuesday into a residential neighborhood in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":53939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-binsar-bakkara","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}