Pilot Injured in West Java Plane Accident ...
A pilot was injured when a Cessna aircraft skidded off the runway at Nusawiru Cijulang Airport in the West Java district of Ciamis on Friday morning.
The incident took place at around 8 a.m., when pilot Rudi Herwin Cahyadi attempted to take off in the Cessna 172 SP from the small airport in the subdistrict of Cijulang during a training session.
The plane suddenly lost its balance and skidded off the runway and over a dike, before flipping over.
“There were no casualties in the incident, but the pilot sustained an injury on his head and has been referred to Banjar Hospital,” West Java Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Martinus Sitompul told the Jakarta Globe.
Martinus said the front and back parts of the single-engine, four-seater plane were damaged, and so were its wings.
It’s not clear yet as to what had caused the incident, nor if the plane carried other passengers.
The incident took place less than a month after a Lion Air plane carrying 101 passengers failed to land at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport and instead crashed into the sea.
Dozens of passengers were injured in the incident that took place on April 13