Indonesia military plane crashes into houses, kills 10

An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a military housing complex in Jakarta on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board and two children and an elderly woman on the ground, officials said. The ageing turboprop Fokker 27 split in two as it smashed into the military airport compound while on routine training, igniting a blaze that ripped through homes and sent thick smoke into the sky.
An AFP correspondent saw dozens of fire-fighters battling the blaze at the Halim Perdanakusuma compound, and what appeared to be the plane's wing sticking out from the roof of a house. "All seven crew and three people on the ground were killed," air force spokesman Colonel Agung Sasongko Jati told reporters. "The plane has split into two." The three who died on the ground were two cousins, aged two and six, and an elderly woman, Jati told AFP, adding the six-year-old's mother was in critical condition.