LION AIR PLANE CRASHES INTO SEA OFF INDONESIAN COAST
INVESTIGATORS are trying to work out how an Indonesian passenger plane overshot the runway at Bali airport before crashing into the sea.
All 101 passengers and seven crew on the Lion Air flight survived, although dozens were said to be injured and at least seven were taken to hospital with head wounds and broken bones.
The new Boeing 737-800 had been trying to land at Denpasar's Ngurah Rai International Airport about 3.30pm local time (1730 AEST) on Saturday when it crashed.
No Australians were on the plane, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra said.
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VENEZUELAN PLANE CRASHES KILLING 15, 36 SURVIVE
CARACAS, Venezuela – A plane carrying 51 people crashed Monday in a steel mill yard in eastern Venezuela, killing 15 people on board, officials said.
Workers at the state-run Sidor steel foundry pulled people from the smoking wreckage of the plane owned by Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, and officials said 36 passengers and crew survived.
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Workers at the state-run Sidor steel foundry pulled people from the smoking wreckage of the plane owned by Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, and officials said 36 passengers and crew survived.
- Foundry worker Frank Oliveros, 44, said he saw a huge billow of smoke after the crash, then saw the wreckage and joined dozens of fellow employees and firefighters who rushed to the scene.
- "I don't remember names ... faces," Oliveros told The Associated Press by telephone. "Our only interest was getting all the people out of there alive."
- The partially scorched fuselage of French-built ATR 42 rested among barrels and shipping containers.
- Fifteen people were killed after the crash about six miles (10 kilometers) from the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state Gov. Francisco Rangel Gomez told reporters. Forensic experts have yet to identify six of the bodies, he said.
- "A miracle occurred today," said Rangel Gomez, referring to the number of survivors.
- The bodies of all the victims have been located, but authorities have not yet identified them all, Rangel Gomez said.
- It was unclear what caused the crash.
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