An Indonesian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing all 132 people aboard and at least one guard at a government building that was destroyed by the flaming wreckage, officials said.
The C-130 Hercules transport plane was carrying airmen who had just participated in an Armed Forces Day ceremony, said a military statement.The plane exploded and plowed into a Department of Labor training center. A rescue official said a security guard was killed, but it was not immediately known if anyone else was in the building.
The four-engine turboprop aircraft, carrying 120 passengers and a crew of 12, was bound for Bandung, about 75 miles southeast of Jakarta, said a rescue official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official said one of the plane's engines caught fire about three minutes after takeoff and another engine failed. The official government announcement said the cause of the crash was being investigated.
Witnesses said wreckage was scattered 1,500 feet from the crash site, about two miles south of Jakarta's Halim Perdana Kusuma airport, which was previously the international airport and is now a military airfield.
Columns of smoke rose from the area hours after the crash. Emergency crews put bodies in bags. One worker, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many of the bodies were badly mutilated.
A heavy downpour an hour after the crash slowed the work of the emergency crews.