Aug 15<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n\nThe aircraft was commanded by Captain Bhavye Suneja, with co-pilot Harvino, who like many Indonesians go by just one name. The spokesman added Capt Bhavya has clocked more than 6,000 flight hours, while his co-pilot has more than 5,000 flight hours.<\/p>\n\n
Lion Air is Indonesia\u2019s largest low-cost carrier, dominating more than 40 per cent of the market. It has been on an aggressive expansion plan in recent years, including putting in an order for 50 of the Boeing 737 MAX single-aisle planes.<\/p>\n\n
In total, the airline has almost 300 aircraft, more than half of which are from Boeing. Last year, it served nearly 51 million passengers, six million more than in 2016.<\/p>\n\n
But Lion Air also has a history of accidents dating back to 2002, less than three years after it was founded by Indonesian brothers Rusdi and Kusnan Kirana.<\/p>\n\n
In January 2002, a Boeing 737-200 it operated crashed on take-off at Sultan Syarif Kasim II International Airport in Pekanbaru, in Riau province.<\/p>\n\n
The passengers on that flight survived but a crash in Solo two years later<\/span><\/span> in 2004 had claimed the lives of 25 people in what had remained as the airline\u2019s only incident with fatalities until Monday\u2019s<\/span><\/span> crash.<\/p>\n\nThere were also other accidents involving its aircraft, include an incident in August 2013, when a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 from Makassar to Gorontalo with 117 passengers and crew on board, hit a cow while landing at Jalaluddin Airport and veered off the runway.<\/p>\n\n
That same year, one of its aircraft also crash-landed in the water after it overran the runway at the Ngurah Rai airport in Bali.<\/p>\n\n
Incidentally, Lion Air was removed from the European Union\u2019s air safety blacklist in June 2016.<\/p>\n\n
The latest crash comes after the tragic December 2014 crash of AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 into the Java Sea after taking off from Surabaya. The flight to Singapore was carrying 162 people.<\/p>\n
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