Indonesian woman who lost fiance in Lion Air crash pleads for safe planes

An Indonesian woman whose fiance was among 189 people killed when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Jakarta last month implored authorities on Friday to improve the safety and regulation of the country’s airlines. Intan Indah Syari had been due to marry her high-school sweetheart, Rio Nanda Pratama, who was a doctor, on November 11. Photographs of Syari wearing her white wedding dress, alone, on the day of their planned ceremony went viral on social media with thousands of likes and an outpouring of sympathetic comments from around the world.“I want him, now that he is on the other side, to know that I’m happy. This was to pay him my last respects,” Syari said, explaining her decision to wear the dress and how her fiance’s last wish had been to see photos of her in the gown. Indonesian investigators are due to publish a preliminary report on the crash later this month in a bid to explain why the nearly new Boeing Co 737 MAX jet slammed violently into the sea during clear weather. Pratama’s father has filed a US lawsuit against Boeing, alleging it did not adequately warn Lion Air or its pilots of an unsafe design condition. <br/>