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Low-Cost Indonesian Airlines Keep Growing, Despite Troubling Record

2 May 2013 23:23:30

nytimes.com

JAKARTA "” The sight of passengers swimming ashore from the wreckage of a Lion Air plane that missed a runway and crashed into the ocean off the Indonesian resort island of Bali on April 13 was not the only thing about the airline that drew big headlines this year.


The crash, which did not kill anyone but resulted in dramatic photos of passengers' being rescued from the water, came a month after the airline, the biggest Indonesian carrier, turned heads with its second major expansion deal in three years, ordering a record 234 planes March 18 from Airbus for $24 billion.


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