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KUTA, BALI - Urine and blood tests of Lion Air`s pilot and co-pilot whose plane landed in shallow water before reaching the runway of Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar, Bali, last Saturday (April 13), showed negative results, official said.
"Both pilot and co-pilot`s tests show they didn`t use drug when the crash happened," the Transportation Ministry`s Director General for Air Transportation Herry Bakti said here on Sunday.
He said further tests will be conducted on the pilot Mahlup Ghozali and co-pilot Chirag Carla. While waiting for the results of investigation, both pilot and co-pilot are not allowed to work for two weeks.
An investigation team of the Indonesian National Committee for Transportation Safety (KNKT) has arrived in Bali to investigate the tragic accident along with investigation to be carried out by the air transportation directorate.
"The plane with seven crew members was carrying 101 passengers from Bandung, West Java, to Denpasar when it overshoot the runway at about 15.35. Luckily all of the passengers survived," Lion Air Director General Edward Sirait said. There were five children and an infant among the passengers the Boeing 737-900 jet.
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