Miraculous shun as Indonesia jet skids off runway

Anne Barrowclough and Girish Gupta & ,}

With the aircraft"s left wing violation off and fuselage bursting in two, passengers on a moody alighting on the Indonesian island of Papau contingency have thought this was the end.

After ploughing by trees, the damaged craft came to a rest and the103 passengers on house realised that they had had a supernatural escape. No one had died. Only twenty passengers were injured.

The Merpati Airlines Boeing 737 pennyless in to pieces early this sunrise as it bounced off the tarmac at Rendani made at home airfield in Manokwari, West Papua.

The collision has been attributed to bad weather, together with complicated sleet and fog.

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"It skidded off the runway and piece of the physique landed in a river," Herry Bhakti Singayuda, West Papuas director-general of polite aviation, said.

"All 103 passengers and 6 organisation members are safe. Some are injured. They have been rushed to hospital."

Witnesses reported that the left wing pennyless off as the craft ploughed by trees at the finish of the runway.

The physique of the craft came to rest with the tail territory in the stream and the cockpit roughly sheared off.

Bambang Ricky, the internal military chief, told Indonesia"s Antara headlines group that the plane"s fuselage was separate open in the accident.

Many of the harmed had cracked limbs and critical head injuries, Benget Hutugalung, an puncture helper at the Manokwari Hospital, said.

The craft was drifting a made at home track from Sorong, additionally in West Papua province, to Manokwari, a area of about 210 miles (340km).

Australian officials in Jakarta are looking recommendation from the Indonesian authorities to establish either any Australians have been affected.

"We are really endangered by reports that a craft has skidded off a runway at Rendani made at home airfield at Manokwari," a orator for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.

"At this theatre we have no report to indicate that Australians have been involved."

Poor reserve standards and inhuman continue conditions have led to Indonesia having one of Asias misfortune air reserve records.

Along with all alternative Indonesia airlines, the state-owned Merpati is criminialized in the European Union.

Although the Indonesian archipelago is heavily reliant on air transport, crashes are frequent.

Twenty-one people, together with dual Australian journalists, were killed in 2007 when an aircraft crash-landed at Yogyakarta, in Java.