Wings Air Plane Fails To Land In Bima TTB Due To Bad Weather, Alhamdulillah All Passengers Are Safe

JAKARTA - The Wings Airplane with flight number IW 1864 on the Lombok - Bima Airport route has returned to land at Lombok International Airport, West Nusa Tenggara, after being unable to land at Bima Airport due to bad weather.

Public Relations of PT Angkasa Pura I Lombok Airport, Arif Haryanto in Praya, Central Lombok, confirmed that a Wings Air plane had returned to land at Lombok Airport.

"Yes, there is another plane landing at Lombok Airport after being unable to take off at Bima Airport due to bad weather", he said, quoted from Antara, Sunday, November 14.

He said that after the Wings Airplane carrying 72 passengers headed for Bima on Saturday, November 13 at 13.30 WITA, it flew for more than an hour and landed again at 15.45 WITA at Lombok airport, because it could not take off due to bad weather.

"All passengers are safe, their flights have been postponed and rescheduled", he said.

From the information, logging will continue for these passengers today, so that they can reach their destination safely and as expected.

"Today they will be dispatched back to Bima", he said.

Nurul Watoniy in his Facebook social media account said, Alhamdulillah, the group of Mr. Head of the regional office and the Dharma Wanita Persatuan (DWP) Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion NTB who was originally going to hand over aid to the victims of the fire accident in Bima had to return because the plane could not take off at Bima Airport, due to bad weather (after 2, 5 hours of flying around and finally back to Lombok Airport).

"Can return safely. Hopefully, the weather will be good, so the team can return to Bima to hand over aid to the fire victims", he said.