Adam Air
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| IATA code : | AI |
| ICAO code : | DHI |
| Call sign : | ADAM SKY |
| Founding: | 2002 |
| Operation stopped: | 2008 |
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Jakarta , Indonesia
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| Home airport : | Soekarno-Hatta International Airport |
| Fleet size: | 21 (+ 30 orders) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Adam Air ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Adam Air , officially PT Adam Skyconnection Airlines , was an Indonesian airline based in Jakarta and based at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport there .
history
Adam Air was founded on November 21, 2002 by two Indonesian business people, Agung Laksono and Sandra Ang, and started operations on December 19, 2003 with two aircraft, a Boeing 737-400 and a Boeing 737-500 . At first these only flew from the base in Jakarta to Medan , Denpasar and Yogyakarta . Although it was often referred to as a low-cost airline , it was more like a traditional airline with spartan on-board catering and reserved seats at cheap rates.
On February 23, 2006, Adam Air announced that it would lease six Airbus A320-200s . At Asian Aerospace 2006, an additional 24 Airbus A320-200s were ordered, which should be delivered from 2007.
On February 22, 2007, the day after a Boeing 737-300 broke on Flight 172 after touching down too hard in Surabaya, the Indonesian authorities ordered a temporary flight ban for all seven of the company's operating Boeing 737-300s. In addition, two of the airline's pilots were temporarily banned from piloting an aircraft.
Due to safety deficiencies and doubts about the state supervisory structure, Adam Air, like all other Indonesian airlines, was added to the list of operating bans for the airspace of the European Union in June 2007 , so that all aircraft were banned from landing in the EU.
In June 2008 the Indonesian government finally revoked the airline's flight operating license after a provisional flight ban had already been imposed on March 19, 2008 after another accident .
Destinations
Adam Air mainly served national destinations such as Jakarta , Yogyakarta , Denpasar , Medan , Padang , Banda Aceh , Batam , Balikpapan or Makassar until the license was withdrawn . Internationally, Penang and Singapore were also served.
fleet
The last Adam Air fleet consisted of 21 aircraft in April 2008:
- Orders
Incidents
Adam Air had several serious incidents in its history:
- On February 11, 2006, about 20 minutes after take-off from Jakarta , the navigation and communication systems on board an Adam Air Boeing 737 , which was manned by 145 passengers, failed . The plane wandered about 4 hours through the airspace over Indonesia before the crew managed to make an emergency landing on a small airfield on Sumba Island with a runway only 1,800 m long (400 m less than recommended for a safe landing of a Boeing 737), which they succeeded in doing accidentally discovered from the air.
- On January 1, 2007, a Boeing 737-400 of the airline, which was on flight DHI574 from Surabaya to Manado , was reported missing. According to the airline, there were 96 passengers, including eleven children, and six crew members on board. The last known position of the machine was 3 ° 13 '55.2 " S , 119 ° 9' 10.2" O . The aircraft with the registration number PK-KKW had been in operation for almost 18 years and during that time it was in use for eight airlines. It had completed 45,371 flight hours and was last serviced on December 25, 2006, according to Adam Air. On January 11th the first wreckage was discovered and on January 27th the flight recorders were located in 1900 and 2000 m water depth. The flight recorders were recovered on August 27 and brought to the USA for analysis.
- On February 21, 2007 an Adam Air Boeing 737-300 with the registration number PK-KKV on flight KI172 from Jakarta to Surabaya was badly damaged by a hard landing. The structure of the aircraft was so heavily stressed when it touched down on the runway at Surabaya Airport that the fuselage was severely deformed directly behind the wings. None of the 148 passengers were seriously injured in the incident.
- On March 10, 2008, the crew of the Boeing 737-400 with the registration number PK-KKT lost control of the aircraft when it landed in pouring rain in Bantam . The machine came off the runway and the landing gear collapsed. One wing and the engines were badly damaged. Of the 174 occupants and crew members, only five were slightly injured.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Spiegel Online : Hard landing - plane collapses
- ↑ tagesschau.de: EU outlaws all Indonesian airlines June 28, 2007.
- ↑ aero.de: Crash Flyer Adam Air's license finally revoked June 24, 2008.
- ^ The Jakarta Post online: Troubled Adam Air loses operating rights March 18, 2008.
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Adam Air ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on April 7, 2008.
- ↑ EADS: Adam Air Of Indonesia Selects 30 Airbus A320s For Fleet Modernization February 23, 2006.
- ↑ Simon Hradecky: Incident: Adam Air B737 near Jakarta on Feb 11th 2006, lost communication and navigation for 4 hours. The Aviation Herald , February 12, 2006, accessed May 29, 2014 .
- ^ Mark Forbes: Jet lost for hours over Java after navigation system failed. The Age , February 13, 2006, accessed May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Airfleets AdamAir PK-NPP Airfleets
- ↑ BBC News: Hopes fade after Indonesia crash January 2, 2007.
- ↑ today : Indonesian military: Missing aircraft not yet found ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Welt Online : First part of the wreckage from a lost airplane discovered
- ↑ Malaysian National News Agency : SAR Team Stops Search For Adam Air Plane ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ aero.de : Black box of crashed Adam Air plane recovered ( Memento of 27 September 2007 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cf. Aero 5/2008, p. 57.
Web links
- Adam Air: Fact Sheet ( Memento from March 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )