Disaster as Lion Air plane crashes while leaving runway in Indonesia - just one week after 189 passengers were killed

  • Another Lion Air flight has crashed just a week after an aircraft plunged into sea
  • Lion Air flight JT633 smashed into a pole as it was taking off in Indonesia
  • The impact caused a tear in the plane's left wing and forced delays to flights 

Another Lion Air flight has crashed just a week after one of the company's planes plunged into the sea, killing 189 people. 

Lion Air flight JT633 smashed into a pole as it was taking off from Bengkulu-Fatmawati Soekarno Airport in Indonesia on Wednesday.

The impact caused a tear in the plane's left wing and forced delays to other flights, Channel News Asia reported.

Another Lion Air flight has crashed just a week after one of the company's planes plunged into the sea, killing 189 people

Another Lion Air flight has crashed just a week after one of the company's planes plunged into the sea, killing 189 people

Lion Air flight JT633 smashed into a pole as it was taking off from Bengkulu-Fatmawati Soekarno Airport in Indonesia on Wednesday

Lion Air flight JT633 smashed into a pole as it was taking off from Bengkulu-Fatmawati Soekarno Airport in Indonesia on Wednesday

Another aircraft was needed to fly the 143 passengers to Jakarta. No injuries have been reported.

Pictures of the damaged plane were shared to Facebook, showing part of the wing hanging from the aircraft.

Passengers were forced off the plane and were seen holding onto their luggage while waiting on the tarmac. 

The crash comes just days after all passengers on board a Lion Air 737 Max 8 were killed when flight 610 nosedived into the Java Sea on October 29 - just minutes after taking off from Jakarta.

Boeing said the 'angle of attack' sensor, which identifies if a plane is about to stall, was faulty on the doomed flight.

The sensor - which helps the plane's computers determine if its nose is too high in the air - had been the cause of problems on the aircraft's last four flights before the crash.

The impact caused a tear in the plane's left wing and forced delays to other flights

The impact caused a tear in the plane's left wing and forced delays to other flights

The night before the fatal crash, the same aircraft had erratic speed and altitude issues during a flight from Bali to Jakarta.

Distraught families begged the founder of Lion Air to tell them why the plane, which was found to have technical problems, had been passed fit to fly.

More than 100 body bags of human remains have been pulled from the water, with the number expected to rise as remains washed up on land. 

More to come

Pictures of the damaged plane were shared to Facebook, showing part of the wing hanging from the aircraft

Pictures of the damaged plane were shared to Facebook, showing part of the wing hanging from the aircraft

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Disaster as Lion Air plane crashes while leaving runway in Indonesia

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