100 killed in Indonesia jet crash
MEDAN, Indonesia (CNN) -- More than 100 people have been killed after a plane crashed into a residential area of the Indonesian city of Medan, officials said.
Nine passengers survived the crash, according to the crisis center set up in Medan. The plane was carrying 117 people. In addition, the crisis center said 10 people who live in the area where the plane crashed were injured. It was not known how many people if any on the ground were killed.
Two planes from Jakarta have arrived in Medan carrying families of the crashed plane's passengers. Officials were on Monday night trying to identify the bodies.
Video shot just after the crash showed crews battling a huge fire, with cars and structures in flames.
"I arrived around 10 minutes after the accident. Burning bodies were everywhere," Reuters news service quoted one local reporter as saying from the scene.
"Around 10 houses were burned, along with five to six minibuses. The plane was torn into pieces, we could only see the tail."
Indonesia's transportation minister said the Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-200 took off around 10:05 a.m. (0305 GMT) and crashed soon after in a residential area of this city, the largest on the island of Sumatra, not far from Polonia airport.
The minister said the airline reported 117 people on board the plane -- 112 passengers and five crew.
Officials said they feared in addition to the people on the plane, dozens of residents in the neighborhood about 500 meters from the end of the airport's runway were possibly killed.
"We're having a hard time getting to the bodies because of the heat," doctor Syahrial Anas told The Associated Press, adding that dozens of ambulances and firefighters were heading to the scene in heavy traffic.
The airport in Medan is near the center of town. The plane crashed close to an artery road full of vehicles in Medan's Padang Bulan, according to Indonesia's Antara news agency.
The dead included the governor of North Sumatra province, who was heading to the capital for a meeting with the president, Antara quoted one official as saying.
Families were gathering at the airport in the capital Jakarta as well as the one in Medan, the largest city on Sumatra island and Indonesia's third most-populous urban area.
Medan is also the main gateway for aid into tsunami-hit Aceh province.
Indonesia's last crash involving a jetliner occurred in February 2005, when 26 people were killed when a plane operated by Lion Air, another low-cost carrier, skidded off the runway on Java Island, killing 26 people.
Many of the planes operated by Jakarta-based Mandala, which is partially owned by the military, are more than 10 years old, according to AP.
CNN Correspondent Kathy Quiano in Jakarta contributed to this report.
A Boeing 737 jetliner operated by low-cost airline Mandala crashed approximately one minute after taking off from Polonia International Airport in the Indonesian city of Medan on the island of Sumatra. 

The airport is surrounded by a very densely-populated residential area.  Local TV showed images of dozens of homes and cars destroyed by the impact.

Reports are still varying on the number of fatalities within the plane.  14-16 people sitting in the rear of the plane survived.  47 people on the ground and 101-103 of the 117 people aboard were killed.

The Boeing 737 plane was nearly 25 years old, but was not due to be retired for another 11 years.  It received a full service in June this year.

It has been reported that the flight, bound for Jakarta, was carrying several local politicians, including Rizal Nurdin, the governor of North Sumatra, and one of his predecessors.