At least 116 people are killed when airforce transport aircraft crashes into major city shortly after take-off and explodes in fireball, officials say MEDAN — At least 116 people were killed on Tuesday when an Indonesian airforce transport aircraft crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said.Buildings were left in ruins and cars reduced to flaming wrecks when the Hercules C-130 came down in a residential area of Medan, a city of 2-million on the island of Sumatra. Airforce chief Agus Supriatna said the manifest showed there were 113 people on board the aircraft — 12 crew and 101 passengers — when it crashed, and he did not believe any had survived."No, no. No survivors, I have just returned from the site," he told AFP in answer to a question.So far 66 bodies had been pulled from the debris and brought to a hospital in Medan, said a Red Cross official helping in the recovery effort.Many passengers were likely to be family members of ser...
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