Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Indonesia plane crash kills 49; scores escape - Tehran Times
... Crash survivor Din Syamsudin, the head of Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, told Elshinta news radio of his lucky escape.
"Some passengers wanted to get their hand luggage. I cried to them, 'Get out, get out'," he said.
"The plane was full of smoke. I just jumped from two meters high and landed in a rice field." He said the plane burst into flames soon after he escaped.
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Indonesia has suffered from a string of transport accidents in recent months, including an Adam Air plane that disappeared in January with 102 passengers and crew on board, and a ferry sinking in late December in which hundreds died....
[For another account, see "Death in a rice field"]
... Crash survivor Din Syamsudin, the head of Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, told Elshinta news radio of his lucky escape.
"Some passengers wanted to get their hand luggage. I cried to them, 'Get out, get out'," he said.
"The plane was full of smoke. I just jumped from two meters high and landed in a rice field." He said the plane burst into flames soon after he escaped.
...
Indonesia has suffered from a string of transport accidents in recent months, including an Adam Air plane that disappeared in January with 102 passengers and crew on board, and a ferry sinking in late December in which hundreds died....
[For another account, see "Death in a rice field"]
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