Air disaster

2009 Indonesian Air Force C-130H Hercules crash

20 May 2009 · 7.57° S, 111.40° E

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When
20 May 2009
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
7.57° S, 111.40° E
Description
military plane crash
Deaths
101
Injured
15
Participants
14

2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash

Aviation accident in Indonesia

On 20 May 2009, an Indonesian Air Force Lockheed L-100-30(P) Hercules carrying 112 people crashed at about 6:30 local time, while flying from Jakarta to eastern Java. The crash resulted in 99 deaths, 2 of which occurred on impact when the aircraft struck at least four houses before skidding into a rice paddy in the village of Geplak. and at least 70 others were taken to a local hospital.

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