A small aircraft crashed in East Indonesia's Maluku province Sunday, killing the pilot and three crew members, Xinhua reported.

The single-engine plane carrying the four people went down and burned at a beach in Tual city after departing from Sentani airport in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, Indonesia's Antara News reported.

Bad weather was blamed for the accident.

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First Published: Jan 19 2014 | 6:04 PM IST

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