Garuda aircraft overshoots Pekanbaru runway
Nurfika Osman, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Archipelago | Tue, July 17 2012, 9:03 PM
Bad weather was
blamed for a Garuda Indonesia aircraft overshooting the runway of Sultan Syarif
Kasim II International Airport in Pekanbaru, Riau province, on Tuesday.
The GA-174
flight was carrying 162 passengers, who departed from Jakarta’s
Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport at 1:50 p.m. It
arrived in Pekanbaru at 3:30 p.m.
"Torrential
rain was pouring down when the Garuda aircraft landed. The aircraft suffered no
damage and all the passengers are safe," Garuda vice president of corporate
communications Pujobroto told The Jakarta Post.
One of
passengers on board the Boeing B737-800 Next Generation (NG) was Environment
Minister Balthasar Berth Kambuaya.
No injuries were
reported.
Earlier on March
30, a Batavia Air aircraft also skidded on the runway. Two different Lion Air
aircraft overran the runway on Feb. 14 and Feb. 15. (nvn)
