:: Miracle escape for 108 passengers as plane overshoots runway and lands in the SEA in Bali ::
Actually, SEA is in Washington State not Bali.
If correct, then the runway overshot is a BIG mistake my the pilot; a couple-a-thousand miles of overshot!
“Miracle escape for 108 passengers as plane overshoots runway and lands in the SEA in Bali”
Overshooting a runway in Bali and landing at the Seattle Airport is a major pilot error.
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Garuda Air has been overshooting the runway, and missing it entirely, for many, many years. The first time I landed at Denpasar, a Garuda plane could be seen sitting in the shallow water just off shore, still mostly intact. It was there for months before being removed.
Never fly into Bali at night is what we were told back then. The aussies used to refer to Garuda as insya'Allah airways (God willing). Looks like Garuda has some competition. Both are Indonesian.
Now even more so.
“then fell into the sea from a height of about 50 metres.”
I hope the flight was higher than that, or there were a lot of terrorized sea creatures left in its wake.
Sea Lion Air
Now we know why an airline with 92 planes has orders for 543 more.
HOPELESS reporting!
The aircraft did not overshoot. It crashed on APPROACH, short of the runway. Wind shear is possible cause.
The slides were deployed, and used as rafts to carry survivors to the shore. The aircraft, still afloat, was towed in and beached.
Truly a miracle that nobody was killed.