All safe as Lion Air plane misses Bali runway, lands in sea

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By Andjarsari Paramaditha and Chris Nusatya JAKARTA (Reuters) - All 108 passengers and crew miraculously survived when a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the balmy Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday and landed in the sea. Forty people were treated for injuries including broken legs, head wounds and shock, though only four were admitted to hospital, hospital officials said. The brand new aircraft had flown from Bandung, in West Java, and was about to land at Bali airport. "But it probably failed to reach the runway and fell into the sea," said Lion Air spokesman Edward Sirait. ...

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