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malaise

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Sat Apr 13, 2013, 11:05 AM Apr 2013

Bali plane crash - overshoots runway

Plane crashes into the sea but all 101 passengers and crew survive

http://www.itn.co.uk/World/73573/bali-plane-crash--stills-of-lion-air-plane-in-sea


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22134380

Hospitals treated 22 people after the crash, which involved an Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 101 passengers and seven crew.

Photos posted on Twitter showed the jet with its fuselage cracked, sitting in water near rocks, with dinghies nearby.

Lion Air is Indonesia's biggest private discount carrier and has been expanding rapidly over the last few years. Earlier this year it agreed to buy 234 Airbus planes, to use in its Indonesian operations.


It missed the runway reportedly from a height of 50m (yards) and landed in the ocean nearby.

Terrified passengers made their way ashore through the shallow water in life jackets as police in rubber dinghies rowed out to rescue them.
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Damn they are lucky - look at that fuselage broken in two

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