JAKARTA, March 21 – A military helicopter carrying 13 people crashed in central Indonesia on Sunday, with preliminary reports saying all people on board were killed, a spokesman said. I Made Sutia, a local military spokesman told the reporters said there are 13 military officers and preliminary reports said they were killed.
The spokesmen said, however, they are still trying to verify this information. The Bell helicopter went down in Kasiguncu village in Poso district, central Sulawesi, where a radical Islamic group is waging a guerilla war against the government. The Indonesian military has been hit with repeated aircraft accidents in recent years.
Last month, a small Super Tucano turboprop plane crashed into a densely populated area during a test flight, killing three people. In December last year two pilots were killed when a military plane crashed in central Java while performing manoeuvres. And last June, a Hercules C-130 crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Medan, the largest city on Sumatra island, killing 142 people and causing widespread destruction.
