AFP/Getty Images
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.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.
Lion Air incidents
When | What | Where | Deaths |
---|---|---|---|
Jan 14, 2002 | 737 fails to take-off, crashes | Pekanbaru-Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport | 0 |
Nov 30, 2004 | MD-82 fails to stop on landing, crashes | Solo City-Adi Sumarmo Airport | 25 |
Mar 04, 2006 | MD-82 damaged after leaving runway on landing | Surabaya-Juanda Airport | 0 |
Dec 24, 2006 | 737 bounces & crashes on landing, loses landing gears | Ujung Pandang-Hasanudin Airport | 0 |
Mar 09, 2009 | MD-90 leaves runway on landing | Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta International Airport | 0 |
Nov 02, 2010 | 737 auto brakes fail on landing, stops at end of runway | Pontianak-Supadio Airport | 0 |
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento