An Adam Air jetliner skidded off a runway while trying to land in heavy rain Monday, injuring five people and severely damaging the plane, ap quoted officials as saying. The Boeing 737-400 was carrying 170 passengers, including a baby, and six crew from the capital of Jakarta to the northern island of Batam, said Pantun Banjarnahor, chief of operations at Hang Nadim Airport. Five people were hospitalized with head and neck injuries, he said. The plane's right wing, hydraulic system and rear landing gear were damaged when it slid 75 meters (nearly 250 feet) past the runway, Pantun said. Indonesia's airlines have come under scrutiny after a series of accidents in 2007 killed more than 120 people. Monday's accident was the third in just over a year involving Adam Air.
