( CNN ) -- A Lion Air flight carrying about 100 people ended up in the Indian Ocean while attempting to land at Bali International Airport on Saturday , officials said . Only one person was immediately confirmed as having suffered injuries , Lion Air spokesman Edward Sirait said at a news conference in Jakarta following the incident . Eighteen people were taken to the hospital to be checked over , Sirait said . The airline , which operates under the official name Lion Mentari , was already banned from European airspace due to safety concerns , according to the European Union . The plane , a Boeing 737-800 , has only been in use by Lion Air since March , Sirait said . Sirait said the plane is a new one and that the pilot was fit to fly . Lion Air crew can fly a maximum of eight hours per day , he said . iReporter captures images of crash aftermath . The plane had flown earlier in the day from Palu , Central Sulawesi , to Banjarmasin , Kalimantan ; it then proceeded to Bandung and then Bali , Sirait said . It 's not clear whether the same pilot was flying the aircraft the entire time . Doug Sovern , of KCBS Radio in San Francisco , was at the airport when the incident happened . He described seeing the plane , with a big crack splitting the fuselage in two , off the end of the runway in the Indian Ocean . `` Amazingly they were able to get everyone out of the plane , '' he told KCBS Radio , adding that he did n't see any rescue chutes . `` We saw a lot of fire engines and ambulances . We were told there were some minor injuries , '' he said . The plane appeared to be more than 100 feet out into the ocean , he said , but it was n't too far for people to get back to land . The fuselage now seems to be sinking into the water , he said . At first people feared the worst , he added , but it now seems the passengers and crew have had a fairly miraculous escape -- with shades of the `` Miracle on the Hudson '' in New York . In that 2009 incident , Capt . Chesley `` Sully '' Sullenberger was forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River after his Airbus A320 collided with a flock of geese and lost thrust 2,700 feet over Manhattan . Everyone was rescued . In late 2011 , Boeing made its largest single aviation sale -- 230 planes totaling $ 21.7 billion -- to Lion Air , a domestic airline virtually unknown outside of the archipelago nation of 6,000 inhabited islands . CNN 's Per Nyberg , Jacque Wilson , and Josh Levs contributed to this report .
NEW : Lion Air is banned from European airspace . Comment: At least one person suffered injuries , a Lion Air spokesman says . The plane , a Boeing 737-800 , has only been in use since March , he says .