Light plane makes emergency landing in western Indonesia
BANDUNG, Indonesia – A light plane made an emergency landing Thursday on Indonesia’s main island of Java and the three people on board survived, police said.
Col. Yusri Yunus, a spokesman for West Java police, said the Cessna plane landed on a paddy field in Tasikmalaya District.
He said the plane developed engine trouble and the pilot sought a non-residential area to land.
The plane was flying from Pangandaran, a West Java town about 60 kilometres (37 miles) to the southeast, Yunus said.
Local media quoted a district chief as saying two people on board were badly hurt and were taken to a health centre.
In December, a jet fighter taking part in an aerobatic show crashed and burst into flames in Central Java, killing the two pilots.
Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of more than 250 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents in recent years.
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