A Lion Air plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew missed a runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday and crashed into the sea from a height of about 50 metres, injuring nearly two dozen people, officials said.
Initial police reports said the aircraft skidded off the end of a runway or overshot it, but an airline spokesman was later quoted as saying it "probably failed to reach the runway" as the plane came in for a landing.
A passenger injured in the crash sits in a wheelchair at a hospital in Jimbarn, Bali. (Firdia Lisnawati/Associated Press) An official with Bali's search and rescue agency said all of the passengers and crew were safely rescued and that 22 people were taken to three different hospitals with various injuries. He said initial reports showed there were 101 passengers and seven crew members aboard the plane.
TV footage showed police and rescuers using rubber boats to evacuate passengers and crew members. A photo on local channel TV One showed the plane with a large crack in its body sitting on top of the water.
The Transportation Ministry's director general of aviation, Harry Bakti Gumay, said the plane fell into the sea from a height of about 50 metres. The cause of the accident was unclear, and Gumay said an investigation was under way.
Head wounds, broken bones
Hospital officials and paramedics said at least seven passengers were taken to Sanglah hospital with head wounds and broken bones. Many passengers arrived there with wet clothes and bruises.
"The aircraft was in landing position when suddenly I saw it getting closer to the sea, and finally it hit the water," said Dewi, a passenger who sustained head wounds in the crash.
All of the passengers were screaming in panic in fear they would drown. I left behind my belongings and went to an emergency door. I got out of the plane and swam before rescuers jumped in to help me."
A passenger from the Lion Air plane that missed the runway at Bali's international airport holds her baby as they undergo checks at Kasih Ibu hospital near Denpasar, Bali. (Reuters) Bali Police Chief Arif Wahyunadi said the plane — a Boeing 737-800 Next Generation with 180 seats — originated from Bandung, the capital of West Java province, and was landing in Bali.
Lion Air is a rapidly expanding low-cost carrier that holds about a 45 per cent market share in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago that's seeing a boom in both economic growth and air travel.
Air travel safety issues are a longtime problem in Indonesia, and just how fast the country's airline market is growing came under a spotlight with last year's deadly crash of a Sukhoi Superjet-100 plane during a demonstration flight.
While both the plane and the pilot were Russian, the flight was packed with representatives of local airlines that the manufacturer hoped would purchase the jetliner.
Lion Air signed a $24-billion deal last month to buy 234 Airbus planes, the biggest order ever for the French aircraft maker. It also gave Boeing its largest-ever order when it finalized a deal for 230 planes last year. The planes will be delivered from 2014 through 2026.
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