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Contact lost with Indonesian jet

 

Contact has been lost with a passenger plane flying between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi, aviation officials say.

 

The Adam Air plane is a Boeing 737-400 with 96 passengers and six crew on board, Indonesian media reported.

 

Adam Air said it was still investigating what had happened to Flight KI-574.

 

Indonesia's transport minister Hatta Radjasa confirmed contact had been lost but could give no more details.

 

A news conference has been called for 2100 (1400 GMT).

 

Adam Air, a privately owned airline based in Jakarta, began operations in 2003.

 

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A few days ago it was an Indonesian ferry, and now a plane.

 

Just before Christmas a Lion Air went of the runway. The aircraft was a exMH B737-400. looks like a total write-off.

 

 

Indonesia is a very dangerous place to fly.

Edited by Alan B.

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I agree...the state of Indonesian aviation is rather deplorable!

 

Although flights are cheap...I value my life MUCH more. :pardon:

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i just saw this on tv3 nightline news...

it seems that the plane went out of fuel and crash.. but its not confirmed...

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According to The Jakarta Post.com, the plane is PK-KKW:

 

Boeing 737-4Q8

C/n 24070/1665

Ex G-BNNL, N112TR, EI-CXH, YU-AOO, N240LF, YU-AOO

 

Delivered to Adam Air 17.12.05

 

 

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I hope everthings is OK, everyone will be safe I hope. at least if happend an accident let we pray to save as much as survivor.

 

last week we have talking about in here Turkish forum about Adam Air, because of, one of our friends who is work in Ataturk airport, he said that "saw a 737-400 in Turkish Technic Hangar for painting Adamair colour after delivery check".

 

So I'm really sad about heard that news in first day of new year :(

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They try to get rid more and more aircrafts...............................btw didn't they order A320??

 

nope, but they are launch customer for the Boeing 737-900ER... hmmm.... hopefully their maintenance and safety will improve by the time those birds arrive..

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nope, but they are launch customer for the Boeing 737-900ER... hmmm.... hopefully their maintenance and safety will improve by the time those birds arrive..

Negative. That's Lion Air, not AdamAir.

Edited by TW Teo

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Just watched the BBC news.

 

Apparently the aircraft wreckage was found with many fatalities :(

 

RIP to the victims :(

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Last known fix of KKW:

pkkkwww0.png

 

Passenger list here:

http://www.flyadamair.com/info/admin/fullnews.php?id=1

 

.ny

 

+++

 

Adam Air's Plane Crashed, May Have Killed 90 People (Update1)

 

By Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja and Leony Aurora

 

Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- An Indonesian passenger jet with 102 people aboard that went missing yesterday while en route to Sulawesi Island crashed in a mountainous area in West Sulawesi province and at least 90 may have been killed, officials said.

 

``We still don't know the fate of the passengers,'' Eddy Suyanto, a local air force commander said in an interview with Jakarta-based ElShinta radio. ``We are sending in rescuers to the area.'' The location of the crash is in Polewali Mandar regency, Suyanto said in the interview.

 

At least 90 people of the 102 aboard the plane may have been killed, Polewali Mandar regent Ali Baal said in a live interview with ElShinta radio.

 

The Boeing Co. 737-400 jet operated by PT Adam Skyconnection Airlines was flying from Surabaya in East Java to Manado in North Sulawesi when air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft, M. Ikhsan Tatang, the country's director general for air transport, said yesterday.

 

Jakarta-based Adam Air, which is partly owned by Agung Laksono, the speaker of Indonesia's lower house of parliament, began operating in 2003 as a low-fare airline. It currently has 19 Boeing 737 planes.

 

To contact the reporter on this story: Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja in Jakarta at wahyudi@bloomberg.net ; Leony Aurora in Jakarta laurora@bloomberg.net .

Last Updated: January 1, 2007 21:12 EST

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home

Edited by Naim

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Here is a quote from Reuters:

 

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's air force spotted the wreckage of a missing passenger plane with 102 people on board on Tuesday in a mountainous region of Sulawesi, the second transport disaster this week in the sprawling archipelago.

 

First Air Marshal Eddy Suyanto, commander of Hasanuddin air base in the Sulawesi city of Makassar, told Radio Elshinta an air force plane assigned to search for the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 had seen the wreckage.

 

"The plane is in ruins. We are sending teams to the location. The plane was found around 20 kilometers from Polewali (town) in the mountains. The weather is clear," Suyanto said.

 

At least 90 people were killed, the head of Polewali Mandar region, Ali Baal Masdar, told Elshinta.

 

"Ninety people have been confirmed dead but we do not know the condition of the others. The location is 700 meters high," Masdar said.

 

A copy of the missing plane's manifest made available to reporters showed three passengers as non-Indonesians, but did not indicate their nationalities.

 

The disappearance of the plane came two days after the sinking of an Indonesian ferry, more than 400 of whose passengers were still unaccounted for on Monday.

 

The plane lost contact with the ground on Monday about an hour before it was due to land in Manado in North Sulawesi, said Tatang Ikhsan, director general of the transport ministry.

 

At Jakarta's main commercial airport, where the flight began its journey, taxi driver Oswald Mamalani told Reuters after the plane was initially reported missing that his younger sister and her child were aboard the plane.

 

"When I arrived home, I got a phone call from a relative in Manado asking me to pray ... for the safety of my sister," he said.

 

The flight had taken off from a stopover in Surabaya on Java island and was scheduled to land about two hours later in Manado.

 

The transport ministry's Ikhsan said the plane was airworthy and last serviced in December 2005. It had 45,371 flying hours and, according to Adam Air, the 17-year-old aircraft's engines are CFM56-3C1 models made by General Electric.

 

An Adam Air Boeing 737-300 plane was forced to make an emergency landing in February after a navigational failure caused the pilot to lose contact with its destination airport.

 

One of about a dozen budget airlines in the world's fourth most populous nation, Adam Air operates 19 Boeing 737s. Established in 2002, it serves dozens of domestic routes and also flies to Singapore. In January a newspaper report said Adam Air was planning a share listing in Singapore for 2008.

 

Air travel in Indonesia, home to 220 million people, has grown substantially since the liberalization of the airline industry after the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, which enabled privately owned budget airlines to operate.

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Crew list

 

1. PIC : CPT. REFRI A. WIDODO

2. FO : YOGA

3. CABIN CREW:

1) FA1 : VERAWATI CHATARINA

2) FA2 : DINA OKTARINA

3) FA3 : NINING IRIYANI

4) FA4 : RATIH SEKAR SARI

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Here is a quote from CNN:

 

Story Highlights:

• NEW: Wreckage found of Indonesian jet, official said

• Transport minister says distress signal picked up over central Sulawesi

• Adam Air passenger plane loses contact with flight controllers

• Boeing 737-400 was flying between Indonesia's Java and Sulawesi islands

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers Tuesday found the smoldering wreckage of an Indonesian jetliner that went missing during a storm. Officials said 90 people were killed, while the remaining 12 aboard survived.

 

The Boeing 737 operated by local carrier Adam Air crashed in a mountainous region of Sulawesi island in the northeast of the sprawling archipelagic nation, said local police Chief Col. Genot Hariyanto.

 

"The plane is destroyed and many bodies are around there," he said.

 

Adam Air spokesman Hartono said 90 people were killed and that there were 12 survivors in Monday's crash. Their condition was not known, said Hartono, who goes by a single name.

 

Rescue workers were at crash site trying to evacuate survivors, officials said.

 

The plane was on a domestic flight from Java island to Sulawesi when it disappeared late Monday about an hour before it was due to land amid very bad weather. The captain managed to send out two distress signals, said national aviation chief Ichsan Tatang said late Monday.

 

Hundreds of people gathered at the airport in Manado seeking information about their missing relatives.

 

Justin Tumurang, 25, was waiting at the airport to pick up her twin sister, but she never arrived.

 

"Being a twin, we share almost every feeling. I felt something was not right, and it grew worse. Now I feel pain," she said.

 

The 17-year-old plane carried six crew and 96 passengers, including 11 children. According to the airline, three of those on board were foreign citizens.

 

The aircraft's last inspection was on Dec. 25 and it had flown 45,371 hours, Tatang said.

 

Weeks of seasonal rains and high winds in Indonesia have caused several deadly floods, landslides and maritime accidents, including the sinking of a ferry in the Java Sea just before midnight Friday that left at least 400 people dead or missing.

 

The passenger ship capsized about 1,000 kilometers (650 miles) from the area where the Adam Air plane disappeared, and naval ships and helicopters continued Tuesday to scour the choppy tropical waters for ferry survivors.

 

Adam Air is one of at least a dozen budget airlines that have emerged in Indonesia since 1999, when the industry was deregulated. The rapid expansion has led to cheap flights to scores of destinations around the sprawling nation, but has raised some safety concerns, since many of the airlines are small and lease planes that are decades old.

 

In September 2005, a Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 crashed after take off on Sumatra island, killing 143 people.

 

In September 1997, a Garuda Airlines Airbus crashed into a jungle-covered mountain slope in Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard. Two months later, a Silk Air Boeing 737 jet crashed into a river on Sumatra, killing 104 people.

 

Adam Air, which began operations in 2003, was founded by Agung Laksono, the speaker of Indonesia's house of representatives and the company's chairman.

 

Last year, one of the airline's jetliners lost all communication and navigation systems for four hours during a flight between the Indonesian capital Jakarta and Makassar on Sulawesi Island, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.

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RIP for the victims and let pray pray for a safer aviation travel in Indonesia..

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