Investigators probe Bali plane crash
Investigators are looking into the causes of a plane crash off the island of Bali after the aircraft missed the runway at Denpasar airport.
Hospitals treated 22 people after the plane plunged into the sea but all 101 passengers and seven crew survived the incident involving an Indonesian Lion Air plane on Saturday.
The pilot said he felt "dragged" down by the wind while he struggled to regain control, Reuters reports.
The Boeing 737 was on a domestic flight from Bandung in West Java to the Ngurah Rai airport in Bali’s capital Denpasar.
Rescue workers used dinghies and ropes to help the passengers onboard the plane.
Lion Air has been banned from flying within the EU since 2007 because of safety concern.
It is Indonesia’s biggest private discount carrier and has been expanding rapidly over the last few years.
The airline flies to major cities around Indonesia, as well as other routes in South East Asia, taking passengers to Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and even Saudi Arabia.
According to Indonesian media reports, five Lion Air pilots have been arrested for drugs in the past two years, but the airline’s co-founder has denied widespread drug abuse telling Reuters last year he was working closely with authorities to ensure Indonesia’s tough drugs laws are obeyed.
"The plane plunged into the sea at high speed," passenger Ignatius Juan Sinduk, 45, told AFP from his hospital bed in Denpasar.
"Everybody screamed and water suddenly surged into the plane. Passengers panicked and scrambled for life jackets. Some passengers fell, some ran into others, it was chaos."
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