10 injured after man falsely claims bomb on Indonesia plane
At least 10 passengers on a flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, most of them with broken bones and head wounds, after panicked ensued when a man claimed there was a bomb on board, Indonesian police said Tuesday. Passengers overheard the man, Frantinus Nirigi, telling a flight attendant there was a bomb on the Lion Air Boeing 737, which was to carry 189 passengers to Jakarta Monday night. An eventual inspection of the plane found no explosives. After Nirigi made the bomb claim, another passenger broke open the emergency exits, enabling panicked passengers to flee the aircraft. Both were arrested. Video posted online showed dozens of people standing on the plane's right wing. Some slid down the right engine and landed on the tarmac. <br/>
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10 injured after man falsely claims bomb on Indonesia plane
At least 10 passengers on a flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, most of them with broken bones and head wounds, after panicked ensued when a man claimed there was a bomb on board, Indonesian police said Tuesday. Passengers overheard the man, Frantinus Nirigi, telling a flight attendant there was a bomb on the Lion Air Boeing 737, which was to carry 189 passengers to Jakarta Monday night. An eventual inspection of the plane found no explosives. After Nirigi made the bomb claim, another passenger broke open the emergency exits, enabling panicked passengers to flee the aircraft. Both were arrested. Video posted online showed dozens of people standing on the plane's right wing. Some slid down the right engine and landed on the tarmac. <br/>