A Lion Air jet carrying 117 people hit a cow while landing and skidded off a runway in eastern Indonesia.

The accident happened as the Boeing 737-800 plane was landing at Jalaluddin airport in Gorontalo on Sulawesi island.

Three cows were on the runway, and the plane hit at least one and shot off the runway before coming to a stop.

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