Jakarta  - An airplane belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, claiming some lives, news reports and officials said.

The Fokker airplane crashed at about 12:30 pm (0530 GMT) at Bandung's Hussein Sastranegara airport, reported detik. com online news portal.

An official at Bandung's Hassan Sadikin hospital said that an ambulance carrying eight body bags had been sent to the airport, but she was not sure how many people have been killed in the accident.

An official at PT Dirgantara Indonesia, an aircraft company located opposite the airport, was quoted as saying that the plane hit the apron of the factory before it crashed. dpa