News Item Text: Air Force still Investigating Cause of Plane Crash

                The Air Force is still investigating the cause of last Thursday’s military plane crash on Mount Salak, Bogor, an officials say.

                “I cannot reveal any preliminary suspicions on the crash because we are still waiting for result of the investigating,” Air Force spokesman Chaerudin Ray said here Sunday.

                He said he was sure that human error was not the cause of the Casa 212’s crash because the Captain’s Pilot, Maj. Bendot Arjiyanto, was both an experienced pilot and an instructor.

                Chaerudin said no Casa planes belonging to the Air Force, including the 1984 Casa light transport airplane, carried a black box.

                “We only rely on the tape recorder and a record from the Jakarta air traffic control,” he said.