Jakarta:
A government official says a light aircraft has crashed in bad weather in eastern Indonesia and burst into flames, killing four people on board.
Transport ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan says the Piper PA-34 Seneca owned by Intan Angkasa Air took off Sunday from Sentani town in Papua province and crashed into a paddy field near a housing complex in Tual on the Molucca Islands. There were four Indonesian crewmembers aboard.
Ervan says a pilot, a technician and two staffers of the company were on their way to Surabaya city on the country's main island of Java for a routine inspection of the plane.
He said the cause of the crash was not immediately known, but the plane was landing to refuel at Tual airport during heavy downpours.