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93005
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 14:03
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MERPATI AIR PLANE PASSENGERS UNHARMED IN EMERGENCY LANDING
Kupang, Indonesia, Dec 3 (ANTARA) - All 95 passengers and crew of a Merpati Airlines plane flight MZ 5840 were unharmed after an emergency landing at El Tari airport in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, on Wednesday night.
The ill-fated Fokker 100 flying from Ujung Pandang to Kupang was forced to make an emergency landing at El Tari airport because of a technical problem on of landing gears.
Carrying 95 passengers including five infants, the plane first circled the city of Kupang at least ten times before the pilot decided to make an emergency landing at 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday.
"We all panicked after the pilot told us the aircraft would have to make an emergency landing because its rear wheels had developed a problem," Mariani Karangan, one of the passengers, said.
A similar incident also happened last Tuesday, November 24, 2009, when a Batavia Air Boeing 737-400, flight number FLT 7P-711, made an emergency landing at El Tari airport.
The ill-fated plane with hundreds of passengers was flying from Jakarta to Kupang when it had to make an emergency landing at El Tari airport after its rear wheels had developed a problem.
The passengers of the ill-fated Batavia Air plane included a number of NTT provincial administration officials such as Yos Aman Mamulak, Paulus Tadung, and Niki Uly.
The plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta at 5:30 a.m. local time and scheduled to land at El Tari in Kupang at 8:50 a.m. local time, but because of the technical problem it had to circle Kupang city for several times before making an emergency landing at 9:30 a.m.
During the flight from Jakarta, everything appeared to be normal with the aircraft but when it was about to land at El Tari, its rear wheels malfunctioned, so the pilot decided to make an emergency landing after circling the city to reduce the fuel in its tank. ***
The ill-fated Fokker 100 flying from Ujung Pandang to Kupang was forced to make an emergency landing at El Tari airport because of a technical problem on of landing gears.
Carrying 95 passengers including five infants, the plane first circled the city of Kupang at least ten times before the pilot decided to make an emergency landing at 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday.
"We all panicked after the pilot told us the aircraft would have to make an emergency landing because its rear wheels had developed a problem," Mariani Karangan, one of the passengers, said.
A similar incident also happened last Tuesday, November 24, 2009, when a Batavia Air Boeing 737-400, flight number FLT 7P-711, made an emergency landing at El Tari airport.
The ill-fated plane with hundreds of passengers was flying from Jakarta to Kupang when it had to make an emergency landing at El Tari airport after its rear wheels had developed a problem.
The passengers of the ill-fated Batavia Air plane included a number of NTT provincial administration officials such as Yos Aman Mamulak, Paulus Tadung, and Niki Uly.
The plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta at 5:30 a.m. local time and scheduled to land at El Tari in Kupang at 8:50 a.m. local time, but because of the technical problem it had to circle Kupang city for several times before making an emergency landing at 9:30 a.m.
During the flight from Jakarta, everything appeared to be normal with the aircraft but when it was about to land at El Tari, its rear wheels malfunctioned, so the pilot decided to make an emergency landing after circling the city to reduce the fuel in its tank. ***
