Passengers evacuated when planes collide at Jakarta airport
Passengers escaped unharmed when two planes collided at a Jakarta airport last night.
The collision caused the wing of a passenger plane to burst into flames, but all 49 passengers and crew were evacuated safely.
The Batik Air passenger plane was taking off from Jakarta when its wing clipped the tail of a TransNusa aircraft being towed across the runway.
The incident caused the temporary closure of the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, which mainly handles domestic flights.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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