Close call: Airport officials watching over the Batik Air aircraft at the Jakarta airport following its collision with a TransNusa aircraft. — Reuters
JAKARTA: Passengers feared for their lives as their plane began to burn and filled the cabin with the stench of gasoline following a collision with another aircraft on an Indonesian runway, an eyewitness said.
A Batik Air plane with 49 passengers and seven crew on board was taking off from the Jakarta airport yesterday when it clipped a TransNusa aircraft being towed across the runway.
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