JAKARTA (Antara): An Indonesian passenger plane broke its front wheel while landing after aborting a flight Thursday, an airport spokesman said, in the latest of string of aviation incidents.
All 18 passengers and three crew members of the unlucky Dirgantara Air Services (DAS) Casa-212 plane were unhurt after the accident which occurred at Hasanuddin airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
"The front landing wheel broke as the airplane made an 'abnormal landing'," spokesman Yan Daulima said.
The plane took off at 10:21 a.m. (02:21 GMT) bound for Pomala in Southeast Sulawesi but returned 24 minutes later citing malfunctions.
It was the latest in a series of mishaps involving aircraft in Indonesia.
In the past week three Boeing jets have abandoned take-off or made emergency returns to airports due to technical problems.
Indonesian airlines have come under closer scrutiny since an Adam Air plane carrying 102 people vanished off Sulawesi on New Year's Day.
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