A Singapore
Airlines A380 flying from Sydney, Australia, to Singapore made an emergency
landing at Jakarta’s Soekarno Hatta International Airport on Friday over a
passenger’s medical condition.
“The pilot
contacted Soekarno-Hatta airport’s tower to ask for landing permission when it
was flying over Bali because one of its passenger needed emergency
first-response,” state airport-operator Angkasa Pura II executive director Tri
Sunoko said in a statement sent to The Jakarta Post.
Tri said
the plane, which was carrying 280 passengers and 26 crew members, managed to
land on Runway 07-L and parked at Apron WC-1.
The
airplane also refueled at the airport.
Tri said
that the evacuation process went well and that the plane flew to Singapore at
5:50 p.m., around two hours after the emergency landing, without two
passengers.
It was the
first time that an Airbus A380 has landed at the airport, which was previously
believed to be not feasible for such a large aircraft.
The airport
aims to expand its capacity from 22 million passengers per year to 62 million
by 2014.
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