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5 April 2005 11:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Australian and Indonesian military pallbearers carry the coffins into a C-130J Hercules.
Photo: PHILLIP CULLINAN Sydney Morning Herald.
The bodies of nine Australians killed when a Sea King helicopter crashed on a mercy mission in Indonesia, will arrive home in Australia this afternoon. SMH
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced earlier today that he would join the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader when they meet the coffins on the tarmac at Sydney Airport.
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Date: 5 Apr 2005 07:31 (UTC)Ground reports say there was a lot of black smoke before the SK went down. No way this was pilot error (a term I hate when it's easy to blame the dead.)
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Date: 5 Apr 2005 11:39 (UTC)Loxley
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Date: 5 Apr 2005 13:37 (UTC)i actually shed tears when i saw this on the news. :-(
As a Military Man...
Date: 5 Apr 2005 14:22 (UTC)You'll not be alone in shedding a tear and raising a glass, mate.
Re: As a Military Man...
Date: 6 Apr 2005 02:17 (UTC)(By the way, a Bitish Marine got a VC in Iraq, the first since the Falklands and the first non-posthumous one since Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Beharry )