| |  | 5 September 2005 - An Indonesian passenger plane with over 100 people on board crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from the northern city of Medan, officials said. The Mandala Airlines jet bound for Jakarta crashed minutes after take-off from Polonia airport in Medan on the island of Sumatra. | News about the plane crash · Crashed Indonesia jet may have had fuel problem · Young boy survives Mandala crash · Indonesia to bury plane crash victims · Airplane crash kills 141 in Indonesia · All Mandala crash passengers feared dead · Governor killed in Mandala crash · Indonesian jet with over 100 on board crashes into residential area 
Remains of the Mandala Airlines plane near the houses of the housing complex. | Other recent big crashes in Indonesia- April 2, 2005:
A Sea King helicopter on an aid mission goes down on Indonesia's quake-hit Nias island in Australia's worst post-Vietnam War operational loss of military personnel, killing nine. - December 23, 2004:
An Indonesian military helicopter crashes in Central Java province, killing all 14 air force personnel on board. Bad weather was cited as the cause. - November 30, 2004:
A Lion Air MD-82 plane carrying 146 passengers and seven crew skids off a rain-slick runway at Solo in central Java, killing 31 people and injuring dozens more. - October 12, 2004:
An Indonesian military helicopter crashes in the northern separatist province of Aceh on Sumatra, killing all eight soldiers on board, with bad weather mentioned as a possible cause. - December 19, 1997:
All 104 people on board a Singapore SilkAir Boeing 737-300 are killed when it crashes near the Sumatran city of Palembang. - September 26, 1997:
A Garuda Airbus A-300B4 crashes in a mountainous area of northern Sumatra near Medan. All 222 passengers and 12 crew are killed in Indonesia's worst-ever air disaster.
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