The Indonesian Navy has ordered its offices across the country to fly the national flag at half mast for three days starting Thursday to mourn the death of two personnel in a training plane crash.

“(The national flag will be flown half mast) for three days at all naval offices,” Deputy Naval Chief of Staff Vice Admiral Ahmadi Heri informed in Bogor District, West Java, on Friday.

The training plane, Beechcraft G-36 Bonanza, bearing the registration number T-2503, crashed into Madura Strait in East Java at 9.30 a.m. local time on Wednesday (September 7, 2022), killing its pilot and co-pilot.

The bodies of the pilot, identified as First Lieutenant Judistira Eka Permady, and the co-pilot, identified as Second Lieutenant Dendy Kresna Bhakti, were buried with military honors in Surabaya, East Java, after Friday prayers, Heri said.

Their bodies were found inside the wreckage of the ill-fated plane in the sea at a depth of 14 meters from the sea surface, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral Yudo Margono informed on Thursday.

“They were found at 10 a.m. at a depth of 14 meters,” Margono said.

Source: Antara News