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mercoledì 22 ottobre 2014

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Indonesian rescue workers help remove a section of a Lion Air Boeing 737 from the sea four days after it crashed while trying to land at Bali's international airport near Denpasar on April 17, 2013.
Why did a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 crash on final approach to Bali in April? I have now been able to reconstruct the final minutes of flight 904 from a preliminary report by Indonesian crash investigators, and it reinforces concerns I have over the skill of the pilots you could be entrusting your life to in some parts of southeast Asia.
 
With four minutes to landing the 101 passengers were strapped into their seats, the weather was clear and paradise beckoned.
 
The 48-year-old Indonesian captain had handed over control to the copilot, a 24-year-old Indian. The landing, with a flight path over water, should have been routine, and with a minute to go to touchdown the copilot disengaged the autopilot and prepared to fly the Boeing 737-800 manually to the runway.
But there was a sudden squall over the water. The copilot told the captain he had lost sight of the runway and handed back control to the captain. The airplane was by then less than a 100 feet from the water. The captain attempted to abort the landing and make a go-around.
It was too late. The 737 hit the water, parts of a coral reef and a sea wall. It finally came to rest about 60 feet from the shore and 900 feet from the runway. Water was surging into the cabin from a gash on the left side.
 
The upside of this story is that nobody died. Four passengers were seriously injured, scores of others had lesser injuries. And the evacuation of the plane was exemplary: Local police, armed forces, rescue personnel and bystanders waded into the shallow water and helped passengers to reach shore—some passengers swam. Everyone was on dry land within 35 minutes.
 
The downside is that this is a classic case of a crash that should never have happened. Bali international airport has every modern navigation aid, and the Boeing 737-800 was a virtually new airplane with advanced cockpit instruments. The appearance of a sudden squall near an airport is common everywhere in the tropics—it should present no hazard to a competent pilot.
 
This accident should be a red flag to regulators—and for travelers. Low-cost carriers are multiplying in southeast Asia. Lion Air already has nearly half of Indonesia’s domestic market, which is growing at the astounding rate of 15 percent a year. To satisfy demand, Lion Air recently ordered 230 more Boeing 737s and 234 Airbus A320s—an unprecedented windfall for both planemakers.
 
This growth is, however, clearly outstripping the supply of experienced pilots. The captain of flight 904 was a veteran, with 7,000 hours of experience on 737s; the copilot was a relative novice, with only 923 hours on 737s. With such a disparity the captain should not have left the landing to the copilot.
 
Most Indonesian carriers—including Lion Air—are banned from flying into both Europe and the U.S. by safety authorities. The country’s regulatory regime is widely regarded as not rigorous enough to meet international standards for either pilot proficiency or maintenance checks.
 
It’s simply not enough to have those shiny new airplanes painted with dazzling livery and staffed with a welcoming, gracious cabin crew. There is a new age of mass travel upon us, and it has to be underpinned by a dependable culture of safety—and that must include the regulators being given the power to limit the expansion of flights until they, and we, can be satisfied that pilot proficiency is equal to that of North America and Europe.

Lion Air incidents

WhenWhatWhereDeaths
Jan 14, 2002737 fails to take-off, crashesPekanbaru-Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport0
Nov 30, 2004MD-82 fails to stop on landing, crashesSolo City-Adi Sumarmo Airport 25
Mar 04, 2006MD-82 damaged after leaving runway on landingSurabaya-Juanda Airport0
Dec 24, 2006737 bounces & crashes on landing, loses landing gearsUjung Pandang-Hasanudin Airport0
Mar 09, 2009MD-90 leaves runway on landingJakarta-Soekarno-Hatta International Airport0
Nov 02, 2010737 auto brakes fail on landing, stops at end of runwayPontianak-Supadio Airport0
  
But this list is not updated
 
If the passengers were compensated for damage suffered, does not know anything, but we know that the pilot and co-pilot were fired, but without taking away their license to fly.......... who knows, maybe u are flying with them to command................. ahahahahah.









































































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