Sun, 24 Jul 2005

Bronco OV-10 pilots buried

INDONESIA: Two Air Force pilots who died in a plane crash in Malang, East Java, were buried on Saturday in their respective hometowns.

The pilot of the crashed Bronco OV-10, Maj. Robby Ibnu Robel, was buried in Yogyakarta. Copilot First Lt. Harchus Adiya Wing Wibowo was buried in Malang.

The two died when their Bronco OV-10 crashed into Jabung Hill in Malang on Thursday morning.

Harchus' father, Maj. Suharyanto, died when the military plane he was piloting crashed in the ocean near Makassar in 1986. -- JP