Previous Batavia Air tyre incident
Sun, Jun 01, 2008
AFP
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - ONE of the tyres of an Airbus A320 operated by private Indonesian company Batavia Air burst upon landing on Sunday but none of the 147 people on board was injured, a report said.
The incident took place as the jet, which had left Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta airport, landed at the Polonia airport in Medan, North Sumatra, at around 10am (0300 GMT), the state Antara news agency said.
The plane was carrying a crew of seven and 140 passengers, Antara said.
The Batavia Air office at the airport and the officer in charge there declined immediate comments.
Antara quoted one of the passengers as saying the plane had circled above the city for about an hour before landing and that the crew had informed those on board that there was a problem.
The accident led to the airport being closed to flights for a time as the plane was sitting on the runway, Antara said.
Indonesia has seen a series of deadly air crashes in recent years. An Adam Air jet plunged into the sea off Sulawesi island on January 1, 2007 killing all 102 people on board and a Garuda jet crashed in Central Java in March of the same year, killing 21. -- AFP