Indonesian military plane crashes

At least 64 people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed in East Java, hospital officials have said.The crash, during what the military says was a routine training mission, occurred on Wednesday morning near the town of Madiun.The C-130 Hercules aircraft, carrying more than 100 passengers and crew, crashed into several houses on the ground before skidding into a rice paddy field.Footage shown on Indonesian television showed burning wreckage strewn over a rice field with only the plane's tail remaining intact.Indonesian media reports said about 15 injured people had been sent to local hospitals.The Hercules aircraft was flying from Halim airbase near Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, to a base near Madiun when it came down.