Adam Air Flight 172

Adam Air Flight 172 was a scheduled domestic flight of the Indonesian airline Adam Air on 21 February 2007 from Jakarta ( Jakarta airport ) to Surabaya ( Surabaya airport ), the clock at 15:22 local time ( GMT 8:22 ) to an accident without fatalities ended.

For the low cost airline Adam Air was the second total loss of an aircraft within two months after already on New Year a Boeingmaschine on the flight from Surabaya to Manado, North Sulawesi crashed into the Makassar Strait and all 102 occupants were killed (see article Adam Air flight 574 ). She exhibited in the result, a flight operations, after she had been deprived of their operating license.

Misfortune course

The Boeing 737 with 148 passengers and seven crew members sat in Surabaya at the start and runway due to high rate of descent so hard that the entire fuselage section buckled behind the seat number 15. After the machine came to a stop on the runway, all 155 passengers were able to leave the aircraft wreckage with their own efforts. Only two passengers suffered minor injuries.

The airport had to be closed for an hour and several flights to Surabaya as the target had to be diverted to alternate airports. The airline had to paint over shortly after the accident, the aircraft wreckage with white paint to make the company logo, the aircraft registration and the hull paint unrecognizable. In the absence of evidence being destroyed, this action is legal and for incidents involving aircraft not uncommon.

The aircraft structure was damaged so badly that the plane of Adam Air had to be written off.

Aircraft

The Boeing 737-300 with the registration PK- CDV was taken over in December 2006 by Adam Air after it had been in the service of nine other airlines since its completion in 1994 and was last flown for the Brazilian Varig.

Investigation

The investigation into the incident was conducted by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Commission ( INTSC ). The aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced to provide technical assistance during the investigation. To determine the cause of the accident and weather data from the Indonesian weather authority and the airspace control center in Surabaya were collected and interviewed the pilot.

Follow

Many customers requested after this incident their money for already booked flights with Air Adam back.

The Indonesian government ordered a ban on all six remaining Boeing 737-400 Adam Air. This allowed for a thorough investigation to return to flight operations and the airline could resume normal line flight operations on March 5.

The desire of several Indonesian politicians for a general ban on flights that are older than ten years, grew louder after this incident. However, this is found by aviation experts as not helpful. A qualitatively and quantitatively better maintenance of the aircraft of the Indonesian domestic fleet is much more important than to reduce their age. The current limit for the permit to fly aircraft in Indonesia is at an age of 35 years or 70,000 landings. The Indonesian Transport Ministry plans to award the airlines with specific "Safety Levels". These will range from " Level One " sure to " Level Three", uncertain (possible aircraft). There will also be considered to have all the Boeing 737, which are located in Indonesia in operating investigate.

After this incident, Adam Air became even more criticism. Even before the accident reported more often by Adam Air pilots to have been subjected to enormous pressure by higher employee. Pilots should have been forced to part, to fly despite safety concerns. In part, flew planes for months with broken doors or a damaged window. Pilots testified that they had to expect a termination if they refused a machine to fly because of safety concerns.