Indonesian Military Helicopter type of Bolcow crash in West Java, three military officer dead

Indonesian Military Helicopter type of Bolcow crash in West Java, three military officer dead

Indonesian Military helicopter type of Bolcow 105 crash in Situhiang, Cianjur Regencies, West Java provinces, Indonesia on 15.15 local times. Three members of Indonesian Special Forces Unit of Kopassus one Colonel Ricky Samuel and one captain Agung Gunarto, and co-pilot Yuli Sasongko were dead on the crash, two other soldier were critical injured Captain Hadi Ismanto as a Helicopter pilot and Agus Sudarso are badly injured, said Spokesman of army Brig. General Christian Zebua in Jakarta today.

Ricky Samuel and Agung Gunarto were dead on the locations, but Yuli Sasongko dead in Cianjur General Hospital. Some of the ten local peoples rush to the location to try to help the victims, and some of Indonesian Military and Police Rescue members are on the way to the crash location. Meanwhile at 17.30 local times, the local peoples carry three badly injured victims still one kilometers away from the central locations. They needs more 16 kilometer before arriving to the local small hospitals (Puskesmas) close to the down town of Cianjur city.

This tragedy is the six Indonesian military airplane and helicpters crash this year, just following the Indonesian Military Air Force Hercules plane C-130 Alpha flying from Indonesian capital city of Jakarta to Madiun city, East Java province crashed into a rice field at Geplak Village in Magetan small city at about 6:20 on Wednesday morning, last May 20, 2009 a few minutes before landing at Iswahyudi military airbase, 98 found dead, and 15 others was survive.

The Air plane type of C-130 which have a routinely fly from Jakarta Military Air Base Halim Perdana Kusuma to Indonesian Military Air Force base in Iswahjudi, Madiun, Hassanuddin Air Base in South Sulawesi and Biak Air Force Base, in Papua have an airplane Indonesian Air Force crew name are Danu Setiawan (pilot), M. Firdaus Younan (co pilot), Ferdinan Liberzani P, Nav Arief Permadi (Nav), Oman Sunantri(Rtu), Tek Sujito(Jmu), Suhartono, Heru M, Tek Apo SM (LM), Pelda M. Rohim, Agus Indra.

When the Air Plane was crashed, there are 111 passenger, including the Pilot, Co Pilot and Air Plane crew. All the victims are taking care in Iswahyudi Hospital in Madiun.

Another Indonesian Military airplane Fokker 27 was also crashed when the airplane failed to land in Indonesian Air Force Airport of Husein Sastranegara, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Monday, April 6, 2009. The crashed were kill all 24 people aboard.

The country's air force has long complained of being under funded and handicapped by a recently lifted US ban on weapons sales. It has suffered a series of accidents, including a Casa 212 plane that crashed during an aerial surveillance mission last year, killing 18 people.

Indonesian military still have one squadron of C C-130 Hercules variety of type, C-130 Hercules VIP, C-130 H/HS, C-130 B/H and C-130 BT, total of 9 unit, and only have a 60% in fit condition ready to fly.

Indonesian De fence Minister Juwono Sudarsono said, the government still to consider to buy another Military Airplane C-130 from United States Lockheed Martin.

A series of commercial airline crashes in recent years has killed more than 120 people in Indonesia. That is why the European Union until now still not let Indonesian airline Garuda land in the European Union city; because officials say there have been no improvements in the company's aircraft, even the Indonesian official had asked the EU to remove the airline from its blacklist.

Madiun is a city in the western part of the province of East Java Indonesia, an agricultural centre best known as the site of an uprising in 1948 which resulted in thousands of deaths. It is the capital of the regency of the same name.

Madiun, located 169 km south west of Surabaya, had a population of 190,823 in 1992. The town is an average of 63 metres above sea level and lies on the Madiun River, a tributary of the Bengawan Solo River. It is surrounded by a number of mountains, including Mount Wilis (2,169 m) to the east, to the south the Kapur Selatan range (500-1000 m) and to the west Mount Lawu (3,285 m). Madiun has an average temperature of 20 - 35 degrees C.