6 things you need to know about the Indonesian Sriwijaya Air crash
An Indonesian passenger jet crashed into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff on January 9, 2021.
Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182 took off amid heavy monsoon season rains, heading towards Pontianak on the island of Borneo.
The crash comes during uncertain times for Boeing, the manufacturer of the plane in question - a Boeing 737-500.
The aviation behemoth has had to tread carefully on the international stage, after two Boeing 737 Max aircrafts operated by commercial airliners crashed due to faulty anti-stall software.
Here are 6 things you need to know about the Sriwijaya Air crash.
Boeing has agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion in connection to a conspiracy to defraud the FAA related to the evaluation of the company’s 737 MAX airplane, according to officials with the United States Department of Justice.
Jet Crash Adds to Long List of Aviation Disasters in Indonesia Bloomberg 1/10/2021 Harry Suhartono
(Bloomberg) The crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 on Saturday afternoon is another blight on Indonesia’s already poor aviation safety record.
The country has had several incidents linked to safety issues in the past, including poor maintenance, pilot training, communications or mechanical failures and air-traffic control problems. It’s the worst place in Asia to take an airplane, with 104 accidents and 2,353 related fatalities, data from Aviation Safety Network show. What sent Flight SJ182 hurtling into the Java Sea shortly after take off isn’t yet clear and likely won’t be until the plane’s black box is retrieved and examined. But two things are known the jet was flying in heavy rain and the Boeing Co. model was almost 27 years old.