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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The bodies of three passengers killed in the crashed Air Force Cassa N212-100 plane were flown to the Halim Perdanakusuma Military Airport in Jakarta on Sunday.

"We cannot yet establish to whom the bodies belong. They will only be identified upon arrival at the Air Force Hospital in the Halim Perdanakusuma Military Airport compounds," spokesman for the Indonesian Air Force Headquarters Air Commodore Chaerudin Ray said on Sunday.

The three bodies were flown to the military airport using an Air Force Puma helicopter, he said.

By Sunday afternoon, rescue workers were still evacuating the other bodies from the scene on the slope of Mount Salak in Bogor district, West Java.

Rescuers found the wreckage of the crashed plane on Saturday and confirmed that all 18 people aboard were dead.

The plane crashed on last Thursday when it was on a flight testing its aerial camera.

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