737-400 of Adam Air of Indonesia with 102 people on board lost

[CathayPacific]

Breaking news from Hong Kong (at 19:31 HKT, Jan 1 2007):

An Adam Air (an Indonesian LCC) 737-400 aircraft flying a domestic flight from Java Island to Sulawesi Island with 96 pax and 6 crews on board has lost contact with ATC.

see http://www.mpinews.com/htm/INews/20070101/ta12107a.htm

[DAL767-400ER]

Damn, not a good way to start the new year. I hope for the best, but I'm afraid we can expect the worst :( .

[Chris@YYZ]

rumors have stated that the wreckage has been located 500km from Sulawesi Island

[RingwaySam]

Not good news atall. Let's hope they don't come in 3's again like they usually do! :sad:

[Chris@YYZ]

Not good news atall. Let's hope they don't come in 3's again like they usually do! :sad:

that would really suck :(


anyone got any news or must I go lurk around airliners.net?

[pkonowrocki]

According to Poliih News Adam Air Boeing 737-400 crashed into the sea about 100miles from the city of Makasar. it is said that the aircraft was flying from Djakarta - Surabaja - Manado. Emergency crews are on it's way to the crash site. The Minister of Transportation said that the radio contact was caught when the aircraft was flying over the downtown Sulavesi in bad weather conditions. .

Airplane Boeing 737-400 Adam air flight number KL-574 didn't arrive at it's destination 6 hours after it's planned arrival time...

http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/wiadomosc.html?kat=1356&wid=8665205&rfbawp=1167677165.252&ticaid=42f6c

[arifpal]

how unfortunate :Slast thing u wana know as soon as u wake up!

[pkonowrocki]

What can I say......bad day for them. Looks liek also a ferry sank tehre with hundrets of people http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/indonesia.plane/index.html

[Longreach747]

PK-KKW a/c rego
737-4Q8

[Crunk415balla]

What can I say......bad day for them. Looks liek also a ferry sank tehre with hundrets of people http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/indonesia.plane/index.html
Wow.:shakehea:

I do hope there are surrvivors, but in situations like this with planes crashing into bodies of water missing for hours, we rarely see that.:sad:

[Lions]

Latest news declare 12 survivors, condolences to all the family members of those that die.

Frikkie



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[chrisburns]

I can't believe this, it was 6hrs after it was supposed to arrive and then they figure out something is wrong. Then they go well maybe it made an emergency landing somewhere. The way this sounds I don't ever want to fly there because its quite clear they don't have a clue about anything.

[Will M]

http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-6762145,00.html

"The plane is in ruins. We are sending teams to the location. The plane was found around 20 kilometres from Polewali (town) in the mountains. The weather is clear,"

"Ninety people have been confirmed dead but we do not know the condition of the others. The location is 700 metres high," :(

[MaxPower]

Such a bad start to the new year. My condolences to the families...

[Crunk415balla]

I can't believe this, it was 6hrs after it was supposed to arrive and then they figure out something is wrong. Then they go well maybe it made an emergency landing somewhere. The way this sounds I don't ever want to fly there because its quite clear they don't have a clue about anything.
Similar thoughts came to my mind as well...

[MaxPower]

The way this sounds I don't ever want to fly there because its quite clear they don't have a clue about anything.

Noone is ever gonna force you to fly there.

Just pray and hope that you never c**** Otherwise you're screwed.

I can for sure say that someone should have taken care better of this accident, and not expect it to have made an emergency elsewhere. But again, this is not like US, it's not covered by radars/sats on every inch. Mis-communication or none at all were maybe present ?

[DAL767-400ER]

I can't believe this, it was 6hrs after it was supposed to arrive and then they figure out something is wrong. Then they go well maybe it made an emergency landing somewhere. The way this sounds I don't ever want to fly there because its quite clear they don't have a clue about anything.
That's the general problem with aviation in India. After the recent LCC boom, it seems there are too many black sheeps flying through the skies, with old equipment and/or questionable safety standards. I would say Garuda, Buraq and Air Asia are probably the ownly fully trustable carriers. Most other carriers have had their share of incidents, like runway overruns, amongst other things.

[pkonowrocki]

I just read it in the news this morning...:

Indonesia claimed that any previous information that the airplane was found as well as the information about 12 survivors are false.

The place of a tragedy was not found yet said the cheif of an air base Hasanuddin , marshal Eddy Suyanto and appologised for previous information that pieces of aircraft were found in mountainouse ares of the island of Sulavesi.
He aslo said that the information about 12 survivors came from a village in the area of crash and they are still checking if it is true.

http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/wiadomosc.html?kat=1356&wid=8665465&rfbawp=1167748402.768&ticaid=42f80



edit: now also on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/02/indonesia.plane/index.html

I am affraid that we can expect the worst....:uhoh:

[chrisburns]

Noone is ever gonna force you to fly there.

Just pray and hope that you never c**** Otherwise you're screwed.

I can for sure say that someone should have taken care better of this accident, and not expect it to have made an emergency elsewhere. But again, this is not like US, it's not covered by radars/sats on every inch. Mis-communication or none at all were maybe present ?

You never know where a job might have you travel. I'm not saying that I wont crash somewhere else. So I don't really get your comments.

[MaxPower]

Allegedly 12 survivors came from a village
Whoever thought this "plan" would work is simply an ass. Good to see they busted the plan. Can't see how they would get away by saying we have 12 survivors * but are really from the nearby village* WTH is wrong with people nowadays....??

You never know where a job might have you travel. I'm not saying that I wont crash somewhere else. So I don't really get your comments. Well now you know, the area doesn't have the most advanced communication systems.(like US) 6 hours....?? NTSB would wiggle to hear that if that ever happened in the US. Are you "gonna" avoid the area (region) now you know they don't know jack about the situation...

[pkonowrocki]

To be back on topic at ;east survivors from the ferry that crashed ferry found. So some good news: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/indonesia.ship.ap/index.html
But looks like nothing new with the jet :( http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/02/indonesia.plane/index.html

[Digger]

This crash had quite a few more pages at ADC. I was actually thinking about it just yesterday, and intended to check for any more recent news, but obviously that's not going to happen there.

If I recall correctly, they finally recoverd the CVR, or were on the verge of doing so.

Anything of value come out of that?

[HalcyonDays]

This crash had quite a few more pages at ADC. I was actually thinking about it just yesterday, and intended to check for any more recent news, but obviously that's not going to happen there.

If I recall correctly, they finally recoverd the CVR, or were on the verge of doing so.

Anything of value come out of that?

As I recall, they recovered both flight recorders round about the middle of the summer. No-one seems to know if anything useful was retrievable, or if it was, whether the authorities in that country would reveal anything.

[Digger]

Thanks.

That's what I was thinking as far as them being recovered. It certainly seems as if we should've heard something by now, one way or the other, and the AD crowd is usually right on top of that sort of thing.