Passenger jet skids off runway after hitting cow

An Indonesian passenger jet crashed into a cow and skidded off the runway as it came into land at an airport in the centre of the archipelago.

No one was killed or seriously injured when the Lion Air plane carrying 110 passengers collided with one of three cows wandering on the runway as it arrived in Gorontalo, on Sulawesi island.

The cow, however, was crushed to death under one of the Boeing 737-900’s middle wheels, head of Jalaluddin Airport Agus Pramuka said.