Plane crashes into sea while landing in Bali
JAKARTA -?All 101 people on board a plane operated by Lion Air survived after it crashed into sea while landing at an airport in Bali on Saturday, officials said.
Evacuation of the people on board has been completed and so far there is no casualty, Indonesian transport minister E.E. Mangindaan told Xinhua by phone.
Most of the rescued people have been rushed to a nearby hospital for checking of their condition, Mangindaan said.
"All (the people on board) are safe. 51 of them are now in a waiting room in a hospital for checking of their physical and mental condition," he said.
The minister said that the tail of the plane was broken after the plane overshot the runway and plunged into sea.
The accident happened when the budget airlines plane from Bandung, the capital of West Java, was trying to land at an airport in Denpasar, the capital of Bali, at about two p.m. local time, Herry Bakti Gumai, director general for air transport at the transport ministry, told Xinhua by phone.
