An event in mid-October hit the management of Lion Air like a plane in a cloud of dust. Five of their containers from Hong Kong and Thailand, which contained a shipment of around 1,000 plane tires, were seized by customs officials at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta.

Dealings with the bureaucracy could not be resolved quickly because the incident coincided with the Idul Adha holiday. "The administrative matters could only be finalized the following