Search ends after Indonesia plane crash

Rescuers have finished searching damaged and burned-out homes without finding more victims of a military plane crash in Indonesia’s capital that killed 11 people.

The Fokker F-27 was making a routine training flight when it crashed into the military housing complex in Jakarta on Thursday, about a mile from the runway where it was trying to land.

The dead were two children, their grandmother and aunt in one of the eight damaged houses, and the plane’s pilot, co-pilot and five trainees.

“Search and rescue efforts have finished,” said air force spokesman Col Agung Sasongko Jati. “All the wreckages have been removed and there are no more new victims.”

Eleven people were injured in the crash that sent flames jumping into the air and a huge column of black smoke billowing over the homes.

The two children killed were aged two and six and their grandmother and aunt had been visiting, Col Jati said.

The aircraft, which was built in 1958 and had been used by Indonesia’s air force for the past 35 years with 14,900 flight hours, was declared airworthy before it took off for its second training flight of the day under clear skies, he said.

He said the plane did not have a black box, which holds flight data and is common on passenger planes.

The crash comes after a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet slammed into an Indonesian volcano during a demonstration flight for potential buyers last month, killing all 45 people aboard.