Indonesia National Transport Safety Committee chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said the locations of the two black boxes of crashed Sriwijaya Air plane have been identified on Sunday after nearly a day of searching.
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BANGKOK A passenger jet carrying more than 60 people crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday, minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Indonesian officials said, bringing renewed attention to a nation long cursed by aviation disasters.
The fate of the plane, a Boeing 737-500, also carried the potential to ensnare the troubled American aviation giant in more bad publicity, even though the cause of the crash had yet to be determined.
Indonesia’s Transportation Ministry said that the last contact with the plane, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, was at 2:40 p.m. local time. The plane was bound for the city of Pontianak on the island of Borneo. It had 62 people aboard, according to the Transportation Ministry. Four minutes after taking off amid a heavy monsoon season rain, following a bad weather delay, the 26-year-old plane lost more than 10,000 feet in altitude in less than 60 seconds, according to Flightradar24, the flight-tracking service.
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By Alfred Chua2020-12-21T04:21:00+00:00
A Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER suffered a runway excursion after landing during a heavy rainstorm at Lampung airport.
The jet, registered PK-LGP, arrived from Batam’s Hang Nadim international airport at 14:45 local time, and veered off the runway after turning towards the airport’s parking bay.
Source: Lion Air
A Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER suffered a runway excursion on 20 December.
Lion Air states that when the aircraft, operating flight JT173, landed at Lampung’s Radin Inten II airport, there was a heavy rainstorm, but that visibility still “met qualifications for landing processes”.
Coronavirus grounded planes all over the world. Will pilots be out of practice when flying resumes?
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Airlines around the world are putting pilots through refresher courses before returning to the skies.
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Premium airlines including Qantas are running refresher courses for pilots ahead of international travel starting up again
The Boeing 737 Max plane also returns to the skies this year after being grounded in 2018
Aviation experts say some pilots don t have access to flight simulators for training
At least 9,690 planes about 30 per cent of the world s commercial aircraft have been in storage during the pandemic, according to the aviation analytics company Cirium.