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Bandung: "It was the third day of the mission and it was planned to last for four days," said Sunaryo after the funeral service of his two members who died, at the Heroes Cemetery at Cikutra, Bandung, yesterday.

The trial run was a training Air Force members to test photographic digital mapping. The 200 series Casa, he added, was fit and ready to fly. "Only the 100 series are inoperable."

The 212 Casa A-2106 crashed around Mount Salak in Bogor, killing 18 passengers, two of them civilians. Sunaryo said that the two civilians were the air photography equipment's contractor and developer.

"The foreign passengers may have been from the company selling the equipment," he said. The five military people who died were the air photography experts. "Most of them were graduates from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and from overseas universities."

Transportation Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal stands ready to assist an investigation on the crash . The National Commission on Transportation Safety's investigating team will be assigned if the Air Force asks for it, said the minister.

Four of the bodies were buried in Malang yesterday. They were flown from Halim Perdana Kusumah Airport, on a Herules military airplane. They were buried at the Untung Suropati Heroes Cemetery, along with the other two cabin crews, Major Bandot Arjianto and CASA 212 inspector, Lt. Agus Susanto.

Two other victims, Lt. Col Tech. Wahyu Hidayat and Lt. Ronald Puar, were buried yesterday at the Cikutra Herpes Cemetery in Bandung, West Java.

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