Whirlwind Disturb Yogyakarta Airport

VIVAnews - Whirlwind that occurred Friday, December 7, 2012, afternoon at the Adisucipto International Airport, Yogyakarta, resulting in a number of planes could not land. Many homes were also damaged by the wind.

Routes to Adisucipto perforce diverted and some aircraft had turned back to the airport of origin. "Yeah, because the whirlwind in the area of ​​airport forced a plane could not land," said Assistant Manager of Information Systems, Data Reports and Public Relations Adisucipto Airport, Faizal Indra Kusuma, when contacted VIVAnews.

The plane could not land it was Merpati MZ 3450 from Bandung, who transferred to the Juanda Airport in Surabaya. Also there Garuda Indonesia GA 210 from Jakarta was forced to Return to Base (RTB) or return to the Soekarno-Hatta Airport.

"In addition, Lion Air JT 556 from Jakarta was forced to spin at the airport for 15 minutes," he said.

At the moment there are no coincidences scheduled flights departing from the airport Adisucipto, so that the airport could not be closed.

"Wind tornado did not last long, only about 15 minutes and the visibility was still normal," he said.

Hundreds of homes damaged

Tornado occurred in Sleman, Yogyakarta. Dozens of houses in six hamlets in Purwomartani, District Kalasan damaged. The roof berteberangan and partially crushed by a tree.

"When the wind came the sound of thunder. Soon precarious floating home, followed by a tree falling," said Widarto, Hamlet Brommonilan.

According Widarto, when the incident happened, all the people panic. "How not to panic, flying roof tiles and trees in the fall," sure.

Camat Kalasan, Samsil Bakrie, said it is still conducted a survey of damaged houses. "We're still logging, but for the toll of casualties was not reported," he said.

After 30 minutes a tornado ended, residents with volunteers trying to open access roads closed by fallen tree trunks. (Ren)