Bear in mind that eyewitness reports of events like this are notoriously unreliable.[1,2]

Yes, it may turn out that this incident bears no relation to the Lion Air one, but I think it's much too early to make any such assumption.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/ideas-trends...

[2] https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co...