MALANG, 23 July 2007 - An Indonesian air force jet crashed into a sugar cane field shortly after take-off earlier on Monday, killing one of two people on board, according to a military spokesman and witnesses at the scene of the crash. The second pilot in the OV-10 Bronco counterinsurgency aircraft ejected himself from the plane before it crashed and was not injured, said Rear Marchal Daryatmo.

The plane flew a routine flight when it came down near Abdul Rahman Saleh air force base in Malang, East Java, according to Daryatmo. The cause of the crash was being investigated, he said. "I heard an explosion before seeing one person jump out using a parachute,'' said Gimin, a witness. "The plane then exploded again twice before falling to the ground.'' Malang is 850 kilometers east of the capital, Jakarta.

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