Malang, East Java – 4 Indonesian Air Force officers died following the separate crashes of 2 EMB-314 Super Tucano tactical fighter airplane in Pasuruan, East Java, during a training workout on Thursday.
Head of the Indonesian Flying force’s Info Service, Air Commodore R. Agung Sasongkojati, validated the healing of the last victim, Lieutenant Colonel Sandhra “Chevron” Gunawan, commander of Air Squadron 21.
” Lieutenant Colonel Sandhra’s body was recuperated at 7: 00 p.m.,” Agung said during an interview at Abdulrachman Saleh Air Base in Malang, East Java.
He verified that the bodies of the three other officers– Colonel Subhan, Colonel Widiono Hadiwijaya, and Major Yuda A. Seta– had been recovered previously.
He notified the media that the bodies would undergo examination with the assistance of the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Group of the National Police.
” Following the evaluation, the bodies will be put in the squadron garage and buried at the area asked for by the respective households,” he added.
He clarified that the 2 airplane, bearing tail numbers TT-3111 and TT-3103, crashed during a routine training session in 2 different places in the mountainous location around 12: 00 p.m.
” The two planes crashed in unique places, one to the north and the other slightly to the south. However, both were in the northern part of the mountainous area,” he notified.
The fighter planes were being operated by the middle-ranking Air Force officers.
Lieutenant Colonel Gunawan and Colonel Hadiwijaya were on board the TT-3111 airplane, while Major Seta and Colonel Subhan were piloting the TT-3103 aircraft.
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