"There is a technical team which will make an investigation, and , and I have ordered that the investigation be carried out carefully," Minister Purnomo said after kicking off the ASEAN Defense Senior Officials Meeting (ADSOM) Plus in Yogyakarta Friday.
The investigation will find out whether it was caused by human error or a technical factor.
Two people on the training flight were killed when their glider plane crashed in Yogyakarta province, Thursday.
The trainer aircraft crashed on a sugar cane plantation area near Adisutjipto airbase in Wotgaleh village, Berbah subdistrict, Sleman district, Yogyakarta, at 3.45 pm.
The two dead victims have been evacuated to the Harjo Lukito Air Force Hospital.
"We have not yet been informed of their identities. They are possibly the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-gated plane," Berbah Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner I Made Muliawan said. (*)
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