- Lion Air Flight 538
Infobox Airliner accident
name = Lion Air Flight 538
Date =November 30 2004
Type =Pilot error (Runway overshoot)
Site =Surakarta ,Indonesia
Fatalities = 25
Injuries = 142
Aircraft Type=McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Operator =Lion Air
Tail Number = PK-LMN
Passengers = 164
Crew = 4
Survivors = 142Lion Air Flight JT 538 was a flight fromJakarta toSurabaya with a transit inSurakarta ,Indonesia carrying 146 passengers. OnNovember 30 ,2004 theMD-82 plane crash landed in theAdi Sumarmo Airport in Surakarta. The plane overran the end of the 2600 m (8500 ft) runway. Despite a regular night flight, there were wet conditions in the area at the time. The captain, a flight attendant, and 23 passengers died as a result of the accident, for a total of 25 fatalities.ee also
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Runway safety area
*Engineered materials arrestor system
*Ground effect in aircraft
*Lion Air Flight 386 References
* [http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20050124X00096&key=1 NTSB Report]
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