The Jakarta Post, Tangerang | Mon, 03/09/2009 9:21 PM
The Transportation Ministry was discussing with the National Transportation Safety Committe (KNKT) over Boeing 737-900's skidding at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in Tangerang on Monday.
According to state news agency Antara, the Director General of the Air Transport Herry Bhakti was leading the closed meeting that was also attended by representatives from Lion Air and officers from the airport.
“We hold the meeting to find the causes of the accident,” head of the airport administrator office EA Silooy said.
Previously, the KNKT's chairman Tatang Kurniadi said that the committee had categorized the skidding as an accident following structural damages of the airplane.
“The KNKT have dispatched four investigators --- Frans Wenas, Tumenggung, Nurcahyo and Sulaiman --- to collect data and do some preliminary investigations to the location,” he said.
The jetliner took off from Makassar of South Sulawesi at 2:30 p.m, at local time with 168 passengers on board landed in bad weather marked by heavy rain. (ewd)
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