Death toll in plane crash up

Tue, 10 Dec 1996, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: The death toll in Saturday's
plane crash rose to 18 yesterday when one of the four critically
injured people died in hospital.

The latest to die, Ardiansyah, 45, was a worker at the gas
factory the locally-built light aircraft crashed into on
Saturday. He died from the burns he sustained all over his body.

The PT Dirgantara Air Service Cassa-100 aircraft with 17
people on board crashed on Saturday into a gas factory about
three kilometers east of Banjarmasin's Syamsuddin Noor airport.

A factory worker and all but one of the people on board were
killed in the disaster. A passenger and two workers are still in
hospital. (01)

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