The plane of the Indonesian budget airline Lion Air with 145 passengers on board crashed its wing into a lamppost at the airport on the island of Sumatra, the flight was canceled, reports Jakarta Post.
The incident occurred on Wednesday evening. Airplane Boeing 737-900 ER was supposed to fly to the airport Soekarno-Hatta in Tangerang. According to the newspaper, as a result of the incident, none of the people on board the aircraft was injured.
According to the representative of the Ministry of Transport of Indonesia, due to the incident, the aircraft pilots were suspended from work during the investigation.
The representative of the airline Lion Air connected the incident with the wrong instructions to the pilot received from the staff on the ground. Airport staff were questioned by the authorities about the incident.
Earlier, another aircraft of the Indonesian airline Lion Air, which took off from Jakarta on October 29 in the morning, fell 13 minutes after takeoff into the sea in the West Java. The wreckage is located at a depth of 30 to 40 meters and is scattered over a vast area of ??the seabed.. The causes of the disaster have not yet been clarified..