Adam Air Flight 172
| Adam Air Flight 172 | |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Hard landing |
| place | Surabaya Juanda International Airport |
| date | February 21, 2007 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 155 |
| Injured | two slightly injured |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-300 |
| operator | Adam Air |
| Mark | PK-KKV |
| Passengers | 148 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
Adam Air flight 172 was a domestic scheduled flight of the Indonesian airline Adam Air on February 21, 2007 from Jakarta ( Soekarno-Hatta Airport ) to Surabaya ( Surabaya Airport ), which occurred at 3:22 pm local time ( 8:22 GMT ) in an aircraft accident ended without a fatality.
For Adam Air it was the second total loss of an aircraft within two months after a Boeing on the flight from Surabaya to Manado , North Sulawesi , crashed into the Makassar Strait on New Year's Day , killing all 102 occupants ( Adam-Air- Flight 574 ). It subsequently ceased flight operations after its operating license had been revoked.
Course of the accident
The Boeing 737 with 148 passengers and seven crew members hit so hard on the runway in Surabaya due to the excessive sink rate that the entire fuselage section behind row 15 of the seats buckled. After the machine had come to a standstill on the runway, all 155 occupants were able to leave the aircraft wreck on their own. Only two passengers suffered minor injuries.
The airport had to be closed for an hour and several flights destined for Surabaya had to be rerouted to alternate airports. Shortly after the accident, the airline had the aircraft wreck painted over with white paint to obscure the company logo, aircraft registration and fuselage painting. As long as no evidence is destroyed, this act is legal and not uncommon in aircraft incidents.
The aircraft structure was so badly damaged that Adam Air had to write off the aircraft.
Aircraft
The Boeing 737-300 with the registration number PK-KVV was taken over by Adam Air in December 2006 after it had been in the service of nine other airlines since its completion in 1994 and was most recently flown for the Brazilian company Varig .
examination
The investigation into the incident was led by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Commission (INTSC). The aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced that it will provide technical assistance during the investigation. In order to determine the cause of the accident, weather data were also collected by the Indonesian meteorological authority and the airspace control center in Surabaya and the pilots were interviewed.
consequences
After this incident, many customers asked for their money back for flights they had already booked with Adam Air.
The Indonesian government ordered a flight ban on all six remaining Adam Air Boeing 737-400s. After a thorough investigation, these were allowed to return to flight operations and the airline was able to resume normal scheduled flight operations on March 5.
The demands of several Indonesian politicians for a general flight ban for aircraft over ten years old became louder after this incident. However, this is not found helpful by aviation experts. A qualitatively and quantitatively better maintenance of the aircraft of the Indonesian domestic fleet is much more important than reducing their age. The current limit for airplanes to fly in Indonesia is 35 years of age or 70,000 landings. The Indonesian Ministry of Transport plans to mark the airlines with certain "Safety Levels". These should range from “Level One”, safe, to “Level Three”, unsafe (possible flight ban). It is also being considered to have all Boeing 737s in service in Indonesia examined.
After this incident, Adam Air came under even more criticism. Even before this accident, pilots from Adam Air reported having been exposed to enormous pressure from senior employees. Some pilots are said to have been forced to fly despite safety concerns. Some planes flew for months with defective doors or a damaged window. Pilots testified that if they refused to fly a machine due to safety concerns, they would be dismissed.
In June 2008, the airline's flight operating license was finally revoked by the Indonesian government.
Web links
- Accident report B-737-300 PK-KKV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 1, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Final Report No. KNKT.07.02.05.04 ( Memento from June 17, 2013 on WebCite ) (PDF; 763 kB) Report of the Indonesian NTSC (National Transportation Safety Committee); accessed July 17, 2013
- ↑ Indonesia 'grounds' Adam Air jets. In: aljazeera.com. February 22, 2007, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Air staff cover their tail. In: news.com. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007 ; Retrieved March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Adam Air PK-KKV (Airfleets)
- ^ Indonesian National Transportation Safety Commission
- ↑ a b nwsource.com
- ↑ Indonesia Grounds Airplanes After Latest Air Mishap. In: mensnewsdaily.com. voanews, February 22, 2007, archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; accessed on March 3, 2014 (English).
- ^ The Age
- ↑ Indonesia eyes aging planes TVNZ ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Pilots concerned over Indonesia airlines. In: indahnesia.com. January 17, 2007, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ^ Falling skies for Indonesian aviation. In: Asia Times . January 24, 2007, accessed December 22, 2014 .