Pilots survive from training plane crash

JAKARTA: An Air Force training plane crashed on Monday into a dam in West Java, but its pilot and co-pilot survived by jumping into the water.

The plane, identified as a Marceti SF-260, plunged at about 12:20 p.m. into the Jatiluhur reservoir in Purwakarta regency.

Purwakarta Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Zainal Arifin said the pilot, First Lt. Anang Heru, and co-pilot, First Lt. Teones, survived by jumping into the water, and that both were evacuated to Jakarta.

The light plane crashed while on a flight from the Air Force's base Halim Perdanakusumah in East Jakarta to Suryadarma airbase in Subang, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Purwakarta.

Officials at the Jakarta airbase and police in Purwakarta confirmed the report but declined to give details. --Agencies