A Lion Air Boeing MD-90 has been identified as the aircraft that had a part fall off onto the taxiway prior to take-off but it was a section of the engine’s outer casing rather than a wing section as earlier reported by authorities.

Lion Air’s top spokesman in Jakarta says it was a Lion Air MD-90, registration PK-LIL, and the aircraft lost the part on a taxiway at Jakarta airport prior to take-off for Balikpapan in Indonesia. The part was found on 4 December.

It was the engine nacelle’s exhaust nozzle that came off, says the spokesman, who stresses that losing this part in no way compromised the performance of the engine.

The pilot operated the aircraft from Jakarta to Balikpapan and “said there was nothing wrong with the performance of the engine” and the aircraft’s flight data recorder also confirms this,

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