The Jambi's Sultan Thaha Airport received the 2022 Healthy Airport Award from the Health Ministry, thereby reflecting its commitment to providing a safe ...
By Alfred Chua2021-03-08T02:19:00+00:00
A Batik Air Airbus A320 bound for Jakarta suffered a “technical” incident involving its landing gear, which reportedly led to its nose gear rotating 90 degrees sideways.
The aircraft, registered PK-LUT, was operating flight ID6803 from Jambi’s Sultan Thaha airport to the Indonesian capital on 6 March when the incident occurred.
Source: Batik Air
A Batik Air Airbus A320 suffered a nose gear incident on 6 March.
Batik Air states that the aircraft, which was carrying 117 passengers and six crew, was deemed fit for flying, and had taken off from Jambi.
Shortly after, the pilot elected to return to Jambi, after cockpit indicators showed a “possible technical issue”. The aircraft landed around 25 minutes after departing and came to a stop on the runway.
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JAMBI (Reuters) - A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat.
Believed to be between the ages of four to six the orangutans, Ung Aing and Natalee, spent three years at Khao Pratab Chang Wildlife Breeding Center in central Ratchaburi province, Thailand.
On Friday they arrived in western Indonesia’s Jambi province for medical checks, which will include COVID-19 swabs, before a rehabilitation process to prepare them for their jungle home.
“We will do a medical checkup and study their behaviour and habits before sending them to a forest rehabilitation centre at the Danau Alo sanctuary,” head of local Natural Resources Coservation Agency (BKSDA), Rahmad Saleh told reporters, after the great apes were wheeled out in two metal cages at Jambi’s Sultan Thaha airport before media and officials.
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21 December, 2020, 4:28 am
There are an estimated 100,000 Bornean orangutans left in the wild, and only about 7,500 Sumatran orangutans, according to data from the World Wildlife Fund. Picture: REUTERS.
JAMBI (Reuters) – A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat.
Believed to be between the ages of four to six the orangutans, Ung Aing and Natalee, spent three years at Khao Pratab Chang Wildlife Breeding Center in central Ratchaburi province, Thailand.
On Friday they arrived in western Indonesia’s Jambi province for medical checks, which will include COVID-19 swabs, before a rehabilitation process to prepare them for their jungle home.
December 19, 2020
published at 4:46 AMReuters
An orangutan, which was seized from the Thailand-Malaysia border three years ago, looks from a cage at Sultan Thaha Saifuddin Airport in Jambi before being released into the forest, in Dec 18, 2020
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JAMBI - A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat.
Believed to be between the ages of four to six the orangutans, Ung Aing and Natalee, spent three years at Khao Pratab Chang Wildlife Breeding Center in central Ratchaburi province, Thailand.
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A Sumatran orangutan sits in a cage before being repatriated from Thailand to Indonesia after having been smuggled into the kingdom, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok in December 17, 2020. - AFP MEDAN, Indonesia, Dec 19 (AFP): Nine trafficked orangutans were flown back home to western Indonesia on Friday night (Dec 18) after the primates were rescued from the illicit wildlife trade in Malaysia.
Poachers in South-East Asia frequently capture the critically endangered Sumatran orangutans to sell as pets, and fewer than 15,000 of the apes are estimated to remain in the wild.
The group were flown to North Sumatra province on Friday, a day after arriving in Indonesia from a wildlife rescue centre in Malaysia that was caring for the creatures.