Indonesia: All 18 killed in Plane crash

Indonesia: All 18 killed in Plane crash
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Summary Families are in despair after receiving news that no one survived the plane crash in Indonesia.

All 18 people on board a small plane that crashed in Indonesias mountainous northern Sumatra region were killed, a rescue agency official said on Saturday.Search and rescue teams have found all of the bodies at the site of Thursdays crash in the Bahorok area. The search had to be called off on Friday because of bad weather.Chief of National Transportation Safety Committee, Tatang Kurniadi, declined to comment on the reason for the crash of the Casa 212 aircraft, operated by Nusantara Buana Airlines, which was on a flight from Medan city to Kutacane town. But Kurniadi said pilots had to be careful about bad weather at this time of year.The sprawling Indonesian archipelago relies heavily on air and sea transport, but poor infrastructure has led to frequent accidents. It was Indonesias fourth air crash in a month.

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