Jakarta: An Indonesian Air Force pilot has been killed in a plane crash in Malang in East Java on Wednesday morning.
The pilot of the Embraer Super Tucano ejected himself from the plane before it crashed in a densely populated residential area.
However Air Marshall Joko Senoputro, the commander of the Abdurrahman Saleh military airbase, told Fairfax Media his body had been found in a nearby rice paddy.
He said the search continued for the second crew member - a mechanic - at both the crash site and the paddy field.
Major Hamdi Londong Alu, a spokesman for Abdurrahman Saleh military airbase in Malang said the plane had hit a house.
"I saw a body was carried out of the crash site, covered by a blanket, it was the house owner," he said.
Metro TV reported three people were inside the house when the plane crashed about 10am local time on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the military airbase in Malang, Nurhariri, said the two crew members were conducting a routine flight to test the jet fighter.
The military has blocked the roads leading to the crash site.
The aircraft, a Super Tucano, is designed for light attack, counter-insurgency and aerial reconnaissance missions.
Several air forces use the Embraer Super Tucanos.
Last June an Indonesian Air Force Hercules aircraft crashed in Medan, killing more than 100 passengers and more than 20 people on the ground.
(Culled from the Sydney Morning Herald)
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