Lion Air plane wing breaks after airport runway collision

Another incident.

Belmont Lay | November 08, 2018, 12:36 AM

A Lion Air plane that was about to take off for Jakarta collided into a pole at the Fatmawati airport in Bengkulu city on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

The plane's left wing suffered a tear as a result of the crash, which also caused flight delays of other airlines such as Batik Air.

Passengers got out of plane

People could be seen gathered on the tarmac of the airport, with some holding on to their luggage, photos shared on Facebook showed.

A large fragment can be seen dangling from the wing of the aircraft.

CNN Indonesia said another aircraft was deployed to transport the 143 passengers of Lion Air flight JT633 to Jakarta.

This a second major incident involving Lion Air.

Authorities in Indonesia are still searching for the bodies of passengers from the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT610, which plunged into the Java Sea en route to Pangkal Pinang.

None of the 189 people on board were said to have survived.

 

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