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Indonesia relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands, but its record in aviation safety is poor and has suffered several fatalities in recent years.
In August 2015, a commercial transport aircraft operated by the Indonesian airline Trigana crashed in Papua due to bad weather, killing 54 people.
Lion Air, a low-cost airline, has been involved in several incidents.
Last year, one of his Boeing planes collided with a Wings Air plane at Kualanamu Airport, on the island of Sumatra, without anyone being injured .
In May 2016, two Lion Air aircraft collided at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport, while a month earlier, an aircraft operated by Batik Air – a Lion Group company – had cut a TransNusa plane.
In 2013, a Lion Air jet with a novice pilot flying under the runway and crashed into the sea in Bali, separating the plane in two. Several people were injured in the accident, but no one was killed.
Last year, the Indonesian Association of Air Traffic Controllers revealed that the take-off and landing rate in Jakarta authorized by the public air navigation company AirNav was greater than the capacity of the airport, thus increasing risk of accident.
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