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Lion Air Crash Bali Sea off Coast
- Published_at:2013-04-13
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:pieterny1
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- description: Bali, lion air crashed into sea bali. Newest information! Passengers injured when a Lion Air plan apparently fell short of the runway at Bali's busy Ngurah Rai airport have begun arriving at the nearby Sanglah Hospital. A spokesman for the airport confirmed that 172 passengers had safely evacuated from the plane which crashed into the sea at about 3.15pm local time (5.15pm AEST). Pictures of the plane circulating on social media website Twitter show the fuselage cracked, and the plane surrounded by rescue craft. The people arriving at the hospital appear so far to have minor injuries. Advertisement The Airbus, which had come from the popular shopping town of Bandung, West Java, apparently ditched short of the runway after the pilot reported engine troubles. Lion Air is Indonesia's biggest airline in a country which, as an archipeligo relies heavily on air transport, and has announced a huge expansion with the purchase of hundreds of new aircraft. However, it's has been controversial, with numerous complaints about its pilots using methamphetamines and attenting "drug parties". the Indonesian Transportation Ministry sanctioned it last year because several of its pilots and crew had been found in possession of crystal methamphatamines. "We have reprimanded the airline and revoked the license of the pilots and crew," the ministry's air transportation director general, Herry Bhakti Gumay, said at the time. A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the consulate in Bali was "making urgent enquiries to determine whether any Australian citizens may have been involved in air crash in Bali ... At this time we are not aware that there are any Australian victims." A witness at the airport who saw the evacuation said he had not seen anybody who looked like a foreigner.
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