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A panel weighing around 4 kg fell off a plane shortly after takeoff Saturday at Kansai International Airport and hit a car on a road in Osaka, the transport ministry said. No one was injured by the object. The ministry will send safety inspectors to look into the cause of the mishap, officials said. The panel, about 60 cm long and 1 meter wide, fell from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plane that took off at 10:40 a.m. Saturday for Amsterdam, according to the Osaka bureau of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. The panel struck the window of a car at about 11 a.m. in central Osaka as it was driving past shops and apartment buildings but did not injure the two female occupants, who eventually called the police, the bureau and other sources said Sunday. KLM found the panel was missing after the plane arrived in Amsterdam later Saturday.<br/>

Indonesia’s national airline Garuda Indonesia is in talks with Airbus and Boeing to delay the delivery of 20 planes, the flag carrier said, as it seeks to better utilise its current fleet and trim costs. Garuda and its budget unit Citilink were supposed to have taken delivery of the aircraft during the two years through to 2019, CE Pahala Mansury said Friday, without giving a new date for the delivery. “We want to focus on the optimisation of our existing fleet,” Mansury said. Garuda reported a wider net loss for the first half of 2017, hurt partly by the costs of participating in the government’s tax amnesty scheme. Following the loss, the state-controlled carrier also sought consent to amend certain terms on its $500m global sukuk bonds due 2020. Mansury did not disclose the model of the delayed planes, but Garuda spokesman Ikhsan Rosan told Reuters they are made by Airbus and Boeing, including A320s ordered by Citilink.<br/>