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Australian mistook cockpit for toilet, triggering hijack scare

August 24, 2021 at 11:21 p.m.

JAKARTA/PERTH (Reuters) - An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet, triggering Friday's hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of...

Firefighters battle forest fires in Pelalawan regency in Riau province located in Indonesia's Sumatra island. While Singapore and Indonesian environment ministers met in Jakarta on June 21 to discuss the haze problem, Indonesia deployed aircraft to artificially create rain in a bid to douse raging fires that have choked Singapore with smog, which is hitting record-breaking levels that pose a threat to the elderly and the ill. AFP PHOTO / HAFIZ ALFARISSI (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)

Singapore smog eases as Indonesian planes waterbomb fires

November 3, 2021 at 6:22 p.m.

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Air quality in Singapore improved significantly to "moderate" pollution levels on Saturday, as Indonesian planes waterbombed raging forest fires and investigators scrambled to determine the cause of...

Singapore smog eases as Indonesian planes waterbomb fires

December 24, 2018 at 2:37 a.m.

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Air quality in Singapore improved significantly to "moderate" pollution levels on Saturday, as Indonesian planes waterbombed raging forest fires and investigators scrambled to determine the cause of...

All safe as plane misses Bali runway, lands in sea

August 24, 2021 at 2:33 a.m.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - All 108 passengers and crew miraculously survived when a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the balmy Indonesian resort island of Bali on April 13...

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