A routine domestic flight in Indonesia almost ended in disaster Tuesday when a jet carrying over 100 passengers broke apart on landing, injuring more than 70 people, officials said. The Merpati airline Boeing 737 bounced off the tarmac at Rendani domestic airport in Manokwari, West Papua, hurtled into trees and skidded into a shallow river, director general of civil aviation Herry Bhakti Singayuda told a foreign news agency. "All the passengers were in a total panic, some even screamed and cried," said passenger Zainal Hayat, 52, who was being treated in hospital with facial injuries. "We flew safely and the plane touched down smoothly on the runway but it just didn't stop. It skidded very fast and I felt it hit something twice before it stopped and tumbled down. "I got out through a crack in the plane near my seat." Singayuda said the plane came to a halt with its tail section in the river about 200 metres (220 yards) from the end of the landing strip.