A Boeing 737 of Indonesia’s Merpati Airlines carrying 141 passengers has hit a cow on landing at an incompletely fenced airport. No one was hurt — except the cow, which died when it was struck by the aircraft’s left engine. The engine was damaged in the Monday incident at Mopah airport in Papua, the Indonesian province on New Guinea. Only 1,500 meters of the airport’s 7,000-meter perimeter is fenced, says the manager of the facility.

BEIJING – Controllers have adjusted the orbit of China’s Chang’e 1 lunar probe to minimize the time it will spend in darkness during a solar eclipse on Feb. 21. By raising the 200-kilometer (120-mile) orbit by 2 kilometers on Jan. 27, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center reduced the spacecraft’s expected period without sunlight to two hours from three or four.

China Eastern Airlines, in its latest attempt to avoid falling under the control of Air China, is trying to call a second shareholder meeting to consider a proposed tie-up with Singapore Airlines and that Southeast Asian company’s major shareholder, Temasek Holdings. The first meeting, on Jan. 8, rejected the Singaporean offer, whose value had been overtaken by the market price of the shares and a higher bid from Air China’s parent, China National Aviation Corp.