An Indonesian airliner carrying 234 people crashed near the end of a flight from Jakarta to Medan in northern Sumatra. Although no cause was immediately cited, the site of the crash is part of the wide area of Southeast Asia blanketed by forest-fire-fed smog that has forced closure of some airports in the past two weeks.
Indonesian Air Disaster
An Indonesian airliner carrying 234 people crashed near the end of a flight from Jakarta to Medan in northern Sumatra. Although no cause was immediately cited, the site of the crash is part of the wide area of Southeast Asia blanketed by forest-fire-fed smog that has forced closure of some airports in the past two weeks.
