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Indonesia plane crash: at least 13 dead

Jakarta, Indonesia - Rescuers were still searching for survivors

A low-cost Lion Air MD-82, taken off from Jakarta with on board about 150 people, skidded off a runway in Indonesia: the plane was landing at Solo Airport, tourist town about 500 Km Southeast of Jakarta, in the Java island. The aircraft split into two pieces and skidded off the runway and crashed into a public cemetery near the runway, killing at least 13 people, according to last informations. Twenty-four...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 108858
Rome, Italy, 11/30/2004 16:49
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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