Incident: Lion B738 at Gorontalo on Aug 6th 2013, hit cows and overran runway on landing

[alberttky 0]

A Lionair Boeing 737-800, registration PK-LKH performing flight JT-892 from Ujung Padang to Gorontalo (Indonesia) with 110 passengers and 7 crew, landed on Gorontalo's runway at 21:11L (13:11Z) but hit a number of cows before coming to a stop past the runway end with a cow embedded and killed under the main gear. No injuries occurred on board of the aircraft, the aircraft sustained minor damage.

Indonesia's Ministry of Transport reported the aircraft landed in good weather and visibility when after touch down the crew noticed three cows on the runway, tried to steer the aircraft around them however hit the cows nonetheless, which resulted in the failure of brakes. The aircraft came to a stop about 10 meters past the paved surface of the runway end safety area. There is currently no explanation as to why the cattle was on the runway.

The airline reported that the crew noticed they had run over something during roll out and radioed tower about running over something. The airline dismissed claims by the Ministry of Transport the crew had attempted to avoid the cows and overran the runway as result.

Photos surfacing on Twitter show the aircraft on soft ground.

 

http://avherald.com/h?article=4667a3d9&opt=0

[Kee Hooi Yen 0]

I like one of the comment in the news link above : "Lion attacks cow"

[Mohd Suhaimi Fariz 2]

This is a cow-tastrophy!

[Cire 0]

Lion mauls(mows) cows to death..

[Adrian M 0]

Three 737NG skidded in one day. Some record that is. KE at Niigata, Nok Air at Trang and Lion Air at Gorontalo.

[xtemujin 0]

Amazing that cows were able to come into the runway area.

[JuliusWong 0]

Cows for Raya rendang??

[Raj 0]

Amazing that cows were able to come into the runway area.

 

Its no surprise, in many airports that are located on the outskirts of the main islands, this is quite normal. Fence are either thorn or broken down hence animals have access to the aerodromes. I've personally had an experience of landing in gorontalo at night and we had dogs on the runways.

[Fairul 0]

Last year on my AK's flight to BTJ, the plane had to stop for few mins before taxying to the tarmac, just to give way for a big monitor lizard crossing the runway.

[Mulyadir Fitri 0]

Not the first time right? One 737 struck a cow before this too causing a significant damage to the left engine. It was caught on video. Let me see if I can find the video.

[Waiping 12]

The engines are not design to handle cow-strike during take-off.

[Teoh Z Yao 0]

Amazing how broken fences are left untended.