At the time of the incident, 163 passengers. At the airport in the Indonesian city of Medan, a passenger plane Boeing 737-800 collided with a truck. This is reported by The Straits Times. According to the publication, an accident with a truck got the plane of the Singapore Airlines SilkAir, which was preparing to take off. From Medan, the passenger Boeing was supposed to go to Singapore, but because of the incident, the flight was delayed more than 12 hours. One of the eyewitnesses of the incident, a Twitter user under the name of Jerry Soyatman, published in Twitter a photo on which a dent is visible on the hull of the aircraft. "I heard that Boeing Airlines SilkAir collided with a land vehicle while being parked at Medan airport," wrote Soyatman. According to the official representative of the airport, at the time of the incident on board were 163 passengers. None of them suffered. The plane was soon sent for repairs, the passengers landed. They were sent a backup board.

The reasons for what happened now are being clarified. In particular, the versions are considered both about technical problems and about the human factor. Recall earlier reported that at the airport "Borispol" the plane of the Belarusian airline "Belavia" descended from the runway. As reported by the correspondent. net, this week at Kiev's Boryspil airport, Belavia's Belavia plane left the runway.

Original article: At the airport of Indonesia, Boeing collided with a truck.