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Indian missile sends Indonesian jet home
A surprise Indian missile test forced an Indonesian airliner packed with passengers to turn around and head home, threatening a diplomatic spat, a report said on Friday.
The Garuda Indonesia jet, full of Muslim pilgrims en route to Saudi Arabia, had reached Indian airspace when the nuclear-capable ballistic missile streaked across the sky on Thursday, forcing the plane to turn around.
"There was no prior information about the test," the national carrier's operations director Ari Sapari was quoted as saying by the Kompas newspaper.
Indonesia's foreign ministry could lodge a formal protest over the incident, Transport Minister Hatta Rajasa reportedly said.
The Boeing 747 jet carrying 400 people aborted its flight after 90 minutes and returned to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the report said.
"This clearly disrupted our schedule and caused us big losses," Sapari was quoted as saying. The plane resumed its journey four hours later. The jet's exact location relative to the missile, which trailed orange and yellow smoke as it rocketed skyward, was unspecified in the report.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=4d34bd0b-99f2-4b20-8111-fe0cdacbc296&
A surprise Indian missile test forced an Indonesian airliner packed with passengers to turn around and head home, threatening a diplomatic spat, a report said on Friday.
The Garuda Indonesia jet, full of Muslim pilgrims en route to Saudi Arabia, had reached Indian airspace when the nuclear-capable ballistic missile streaked across the sky on Thursday, forcing the plane to turn around.
"There was no prior information about the test," the national carrier's operations director Ari Sapari was quoted as saying by the Kompas newspaper.
Indonesia's foreign ministry could lodge a formal protest over the incident, Transport Minister Hatta Rajasa reportedly said.
The Boeing 747 jet carrying 400 people aborted its flight after 90 minutes and returned to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the report said.
"This clearly disrupted our schedule and caused us big losses," Sapari was quoted as saying. The plane resumed its journey four hours later. The jet's exact location relative to the missile, which trailed orange and yellow smoke as it rocketed skyward, was unspecified in the report.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=4d34bd0b-99f2-4b20-8111-fe0cdacbc296&
