Sunday, April 14, 2013

Bali Boeing 737 air accident


 
The Lion Air airplane that crashed into the ocean 50 meters from the runway at Ngurah Rai Airport, Denpasar. (Twitter Photo)
 Indonesian domestic aircraft Boeing 737 carrying more than 100 people missed the runway on the resort island of Bali, crashed in shallow water on Saturday. Indonesian officials added no one died.
Local media report that some of the passengers are being treated in hospital for injuries.The incident occurred at the Denpasar airport at around 3:30 PM local time when the Lion Air Boeing 737 was about to land from Bandung, West Java.

Sherly Yunita, a public relations officer at Ngurah Rai Airport, told the Jakarta Globe that the passenger plane did not touch the runway and landed directly onto the sea. “The cause is not known yet,” Sherly said. “It was an emergency landing.”Lion Air airplane carrying 102 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing on the ocean after it overshot the runway at Ngurah Rai Airport on Saturday afternoon.

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