KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) -- Malindo Air has confirmed that flight OD315 on the way to Kuala Lumpur yesterday afternoon from Jakarta, Indonesia, made a turn-back to Soekarno Hatta International Airport, Jakarta.    

Flight OD315, operated on Boeing 737-900ER, departed Soekarno International Airport, Jakarta at 2:42pm local time, carrying 85 passengers with no infant, and 6 crew members. The aircraft was supposed to have arrived at KLIA at 5:20pm yesterday.

The operating crew discovered that the aircraft encountered pressurization problem when oxygen masks were suddenly deployed. Our pilots immediately carried out the emergency checklist as per standard operating procedures and alerted air traffic control towers before landing to Jakarta.

The aircraft safely landed at 3:17pm Jakarta time and no injuries were reported. The passengers were being taken care of by our ground staff and arrangements to give them accommodation, and putting them on the next available flights to Kuala Lumpur were already underway.
 
About Malindo Air

Malindo Air is a Malaysian-based airline with main hubs at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Subang Skypark, the convenient KL downtown city airport in Selangor, Malaysia. The airline took to the skies in March 2013 with domestic flights and has since grown to operate routes to all major airports in Malaysia and across the continents of Asia and Australia. The fleet itself has grown exponentially to 13 ATR72-600 and 29 Boeing 737 as of Oct 2018.  The airline also obtained the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).

Today, the airline operates over 800 flights weekly across a continuously growing network of about 57 routes in the region. Also an IATA airline member, Malindo Air codeshare with Turkish Airline, Lion Air, Batik Air, as well as an interlining partner to Xiamen Air, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Turkish Airline, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Oman Air.
 
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SOURCE : Malindo Air

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--BERNAMA