An Adam Air plane from Jakarta with 184 people on board was forced to land at a Malaysian airport Tuesday due to bad weather in Medan, North Sumatra, a report said.
The plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at around 2:30 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive at Medan's Polonia Airport at 4:40 p.m., the detik.com news portal said.
"The plane experienced turbulence several times while flying over Polonia. The pilot then notified us that there the flight would be rerouted to Penang, Malaysia, until the weather was back to normal. Many passengers were already nervous," Rosadi, 30, one of the passengers, was quoted as saying.
He said the Boeing 737-200 later landed at Penang's Bayan Lepas Airport, where the passengers waited for an hour before the plane flew to Medan at around 8 p.m. It eventually landed safely there after 45 minutes later.
The Adam Air district manager in Medan, Bunga, confirmed the report. "The weather was so bad. Other flights were similarly delayed. We did so to save the passengers," she told detik.com. --JP
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