Fractured Window on Merpati Flight: East Nusa Tenggara

This whole airline safety fiasco just keeps on getting worse…and worse. In general, Merapti planes are okay (I use the word loosely) and, I can still remember boarding one in Yogyakarta through the rear of the plane not by a set of steps to the side of the aircraft. But Merpati are in the spotlight with the latest unnerving incident.

It seems that a front part of window glass of Boeing 737-300 plane posed rupture when the aircraft operated by state-owned Merpati Airways was on its flight from Bali capital of Denpasar to East Nusa Tenggara capital of Kupang, a Jakarta Post report says.

MetroTV reported that the plane could land safely in an airport in Kupang, but its extending flight to Jakarta had to be delayed for hours while waiting for window glass to replace the rift one from Surabaya.

Merpati official could not say about the cause of the rupture, saying that it was still under investigation.

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