March 20, 2009

A Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-200, registration PK-CJA performing flight SJ-89 from Bandar Lampung to Jakarta (Indonesia) with 111 passengers, rejected takeoff from Bandar Lampung after a loud bang was heard due to the surge of the left hand engine. The airplane stopped safely, emergency services checked the airplane out. During those checks the smell of burned flesh developed inside the cabin. The airplane subsequently taxied to the apron, the passengers disembarked normally.

Engineers found a couple of feathers around the engine inlet and the remains of a bird embedded into the left engine.