Chunk of jetliner wing found on Indonesia runway

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Workers found a piece of a wing from a passenger jet on the runway at Indonesia’s main airport and investigators are trying to determine which plane it fell from, officials said Wednesday. The 10-foot (3-meter) piece of wing was found Tuesday at Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta international airport, said Yurlis Hasibuan, a senior air transportation official.

“It has been identified as a side engine cover, but we do not yet know which plane it came from,” he said. The wing piece was found on a runway used by planes on domestic flights as well as some cargo planes flying internationally, he said. Last month, a similar-sized piece of wing fell from a jetliner minutes after it took off from the same airport.

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