08 November,2018 03:52 PM IST | Jakarta | IANS
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A week after an Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air plane crashed killing 189 people, another of its aircraft was involved in an incident on Thursday, when it smashed into a pole during takeoff from an airport on Sumatra Island.
Lion Air blamed airport staff for the incident, which did not cause any casualties, Efe news reported.
A spokesperson for the airline said in a statement that they had received a letter of apology from the airport's air traffic controller.
Images distributed on social media showed passengers on the runway observing the broken part of the plane.
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This latest incident came just over a week after a Lion Air plane crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, killing everyone on board, prompting the Indonesian Transport Ministry to conduct a special investigation into the airline.
The ministry also ordered an inspection of all Boeing 737 Max 8 - the model which crashed into the seaplanes in the country.
Flight data from the black box revealed that the plane's sensors were defective and had received erroneous data.
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