Guest fountainhall Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Indonesia has had a dreadful record with air safety, especially after it liberalized the market in 1999 and allowed many lccs to start up. In 2007, following a Garuda Boeing 737 crash at Yogyakarta Airport that killed 31 people, the then-director general of Indonesian civil aviation, Budhi M Suyitno, told reporters that his country had what he called a woeful safety record. For every million flights across Indonesia, Suyitno said, there were 3.77 fatal flights against a global average of 0.25. Suyitno called it a “never-ending struggle" to identify safety hazards and improve the aviation culture of Indonesia. "As an island nation aviation is critical to connect and unite our people," Suyitno said In the same year, an Adam Air 737 somehow strayed hundreds of kilometers off course, crashing into the sea and killing 102 people as the crew apparently focused their attention on an inertial navigation system problem and, according to the International Air Safety Network, “neither pilot was flying the aircraft.” http://www.asiasenti...4491&Itemid=426 Finally, after that 737 crash, Adam Air had its operating license withdrawn and the country’s air ministry started to clean up its act. After a 6 year ban, the national airline Garuda was finally permitted to reenter EU airspace by restarting flights to Amsterdam a year or so ago. But today comes news of another alarming incident. Indonesian officials have suspended a foreign pilot and launched an investigation after a passenger jet landed at the wrong airport. The Sriwijaya Air jet had about 100 people on board when it took off on Saturday from Medan in northern Sumatra headed for the city of Padang. However, it landed at the Tabing air force base, 12 km (seven miles) from its destination. Indonesian officials said air safety practices would be investigated. It is not known why the pilot chose to land at the wrong airport - only that he was in contact with the air traffic control at Minangkabau airport in Padang. http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-19944402 Quote
