Plane from RI skids in S'pore

Plane from RI skids in S'pore

SINGAPORE (AP): A Fokker-28 plane chartered by a Swedish
engineering company to evacuate its employees and other foreigners
from riot-torn Indonesia landed in the middle of the rain-slick
runway at Seletar Airport on yesterday and broke its left wing as
it swerved off the tarmac.

Three people were hospitalized among the 79 aboard the twin-
engine Manunggal Air plane when it landed in heavy rain at 1:15
p.m. on Seletar's one runway.

"I could feel that the pilot was breaking several times, like
pumping the brakes, but it was very slippery ...," said Charlie
Hahne, the Swedish regional manager for Alfa Laval in Jakarta.

Hahne's wife was treated for neck pains. A young Western woman
with her arm in a sling was put into an ambulance. Fellow
passengers said she hurt it pushing on an emergency door, but the
Civil Aviation Authority said her arm and leg had been injured
previously. A third woman, identified only as an elderly Malaysian,
was treated for shock and released from hospital.