Batik Air Flight Skids Off Yogyakarta Runway; No Injuries Reported

[alberttky 0]

How many runway excursions have Indonesian carriers registered so far??

 

 

Jakarta. A Batik Air jet with 167 people on board skidded off the runway upon landing at Yogyakarta’s Adisucipto airport on Friday afternoon, in the latest aviation safety incident involving a domestic airline.

 

No one was reported injured in the incident, which occurred during moderate rain at 2:50 p.m. local time.

 

The plane, a Boeing 737 carrying seven crew and 160 passengers, was on a routine flight from Jakarta. Local media reported several passengers on board as saying that the plane came in hard on the landing before its nose lurched downward and it skidded off the end of the runway.

From photos posted on social media, the front landing gear of the plane appears to have collapsed, with the front half of the plane resting nose-down in a field and the rear half still on the runway.

A spokesman for the Lion Air Group, Batik Air’s parent company, said none of the passengers were injured and that they were safely evacuated to the airport terminal. Airport authorities have ordered a suspension of all flight pending removal of the plane from the runway.

The incident is the first major one of its kind for Batik Air, the premium subsidiary of low-cost carrier Lion Air, which itself has a checkered safety record.

A hard landing in February 2014 saw a Lion Air Boeing 737 bounce four times on the runway at Surabaya’s Juanda airport, causing a tail strike and substantial damage to the aircraft, as well as injuries to several passengers.

In August 2013, another Lion 737 collided into a cow on the runway at Jalaluddin airport in Manado, North Sulawesi.

In April that year, the airline had to write off a brand-new 737 after the pilot undershot his landing at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai airport and crashed the jet into the sea.

http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/batik-air-flight-skids-off-yogyakarta-runway-no-injuries-reported/

 

[Lim Kar Yong 0]

I like how Batik Air is described - " the premium subsidiary of low-cost carrier Lion Air". Is BatikAir the equivalent of Malindo?

[Suzanne Goh 0]

I like how Batik Air is described - " the premium subsidiary of low-cost carrier Lion Air". Is BatikAir the equivalent of Malindo?

 

Yes. ID is the same service concept as OD.