Contact Lost with 737 over Indonesia

[Anark]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6222629.stm

Contact has been lost with a passenger plane flying between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi, aviation officials have said.

The Adam Air plane is a Boeing 737-400 with 96 passengers and six crew members on board.

Adam Air said it was investigating what had happened to Flight KI-574.

The plane left Surabaya in Java at 1300 local time (0600 GMT) on a two-hour flight to Manado in northern Sulawesi, a transport ministry official said.

Contact was lost at 35,000ft, when the plane was a hour away from its destination, Ichsan Tatang added.

An air traffic controller told local TV the aircraft had hit "very bad" weather and would have run out of fuel if it had not already landed.

Adam Air, a privately owned airline based in Jakarta, began operations in 2003.

[Ivan]

You may consider this one crashed.

Only reason for these guys to keep their operating permit is that the airline owner is related to some politician

[Anark]

Looks like it has crashed as they have found "two possible locations for a passenger plane crash".

[KDSM]

12 survive Indonesia jet crash; 90 die

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers found the smoldering wreckage Tuesday of an Indonesian jetliner that went missing during a storm. Officials said 90 people were killed but 12 survived in the country's second disaster in days. Monday's crash followed on the heels of the sinking of a passenger ferry late Friday in Indonesia's Java Sea that left 400 people dead or missing

I think this country needs to take a look at its transportation safety regulations and opperating procedures and make some changes.

[Anark]

Actually, their transport minister says that it has not been found yet and that those are villagers rumors.

[beaky]

Actually, their transport minister says that it has not been found yet and that those are villagers rumors.

Found this excerpt on a google pilot forum:

Crews Find Wreckage Of Missing Indonesian Airliner

Indonesian Jet Radioed Distress Call Before Disappearing
ANN REALTIME UPDATE 01.01.07 2200 EST: Indonesian air force pilots say
they've spotted the wreckage of a missing Adam Air jet in a mountainous
region of Sulawesi.

Initial reports from the scene gave little hope for any of the 102 persons
reported onboard the 737. However, CNN reports a spokesman for Adam Air said
12 people survived the crash.

"The plane is in ruins. We are sending teams to the location. The plane was
found around 20 kilometers from Polewali in the mountains," said First Air
Marshal Eddy Suyanto, commander of Hasanuddin air base in the Sulawesi city
of Makassar.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it will send a team to
assist the government of Indonesia in its investigation of the crash.

Original Report
11:00 EST: An Indonesian Adam Air 737-400 passenger jet said to be carrying
102 passengers and crew sent a distress signal before controllers lost
contact with it earlier today.

Indonesian transport minister Hatta Radjasa told the local news radio the
signal was picked by a station in central province of the nation's island of
Sulawesi and the agency had dispatched search and rescue crews to the area.

According to the Associated Press, Indonesian air traffic controllers lost
contact with the jet as it cruised at 35,00 feet between the islands of Java
and Sulawesi. The jet departed Surabaya in East Java around 13:00 local.
Contact had still not been made more than six hours after its scheduled
15:00 local arrival at Manado near the northern tip of Sulawesi.

An Indonesian air traffic controller Bhabr (many Indonesians use only one
name) told a local TV station the plane hit "very bad" weather. Airline
officials say the aircraft had enough fuel for a four-hour flight. "This is
an emergency," he said.

Minister Radjasa said, "Let's hope the plane had an emergency landing."

An airport spokesman told the Associated press the country's Navy had been
contacted to aid in a possible seaborne search effort.

ANN will post more information on this developing story as it becomes
available.

FMI: www.adamair.co.id
aero-news.net

[Woodlouse2002]

12 survive Indonesia jet crash; 90 die

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers found the smoldering wreckage Tuesday of an Indonesian jetliner that went missing during a storm. Officials said 90 people were killed but 12 survived in the country's second disaster in days. Monday's crash followed on the heels of the sinking of a passenger ferry late Friday in Indonesia's Java Sea that left 400 people dead or missing

I think this country needs to take a look at its transportation safety regulations and opperating procedures and make some changes.

Welcome to the 3rd world. Travel, like it or not, is dangerous. Especially by air or sea. Some countries cannot afford, or simply havn't the infrastructure to make everything as safe and cosy as Europe and America.

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Third world? I've travelled on Ethiopian Airlines 737-200 and a Sudan Airways A300...Wasn't altogether too bad

[Ivan]

Third world? I've travelled on Ethiopian Airlines 737-200 and a Sudan Airways A300...Wasn't altogether too bad

Ethiopian is considered to be the best in the horn of africa.
Sudan Airways... are you sure it wasnt a leased one (still its most likely from onur air then but you cant have all)