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“All passengers are in good condition, no one was injured. Both planes are now at the apron...” said Andy Saladin, a spokesman for Lion Air said.

Indonesia’s air travel industry is booming, with the number of domestic passengers growing significantly over the past decade, but it has a dismal air safety record and reputation for chaotic regulation.

In May last year, two Lion Air planes collided at Soekarno-Hatta airport here.

A month earlier, a plane operated by Batik Air, part of the Lion Group, clipped a TransNusa plane.

In 2013, a Lion Air jet with a rookie pilot at the controls undershot the runway and crashed into the sea in Bali, splitting the plane in two. Several people were injured in the crash, but no one was killed.

Last week, the Indonesian Air Traffic Controllers Association revealed that state-run air navigation company AirNav often allowed 84 take-offs and landings per hour at the airport here, increasing the chance of accidents. AFP