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737 crash again
Sam06
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The Sriwijaya Air disappeared from radars four minutes into its journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.
It is thought to have dropped more than 3,000m (10,000ft) in less than a minute, according to flight tracking website Flightradar24.com.
Witnesses said they had seen and heard at least one explosion.
Fisherman Solihin, who goes by one name, told the BBC Indonesian service he had witnessed a crash and his captain decided to return to land.
"The plane fell like lightning into the sea and exploded in the water," he said.
"It was pretty close to us, the shards of a kind of plywood almost hit my ship."
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According to registration details, the plane is a 26-year-old Boeing 737-500 NOT a 737-MAX. Maintained in Indonesia, flown by Indonesians.
Let's not pin this on Boeing, shall we?
Sriwijaya Air, Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.
Sorry to hear about another plane crash but I really need a lesson in modern geography! Our world sure has a lot of new names for places then back when I studied the globe!
I will never again feel comfortable while flying to Pontianak on Sriwijaya Air.
Lets pull out the maintenance records on it ... That will most likely tell the tale.
Ha. You assume that all the maintenance they signed off on was actually done AND done right. The records may be pure; the work? Maybe not.
The tale will most likely be worn parts that needed replaced. I would never fly a third world airline unless I was drunk and prayed before departure.
As much time as I spend overseas, I have tried really hard to avoid flying on aircraft that are not under some sort of EASA or FAA oversight.
Even in Europe some of those airlines can be very sketchy.
I have not missed traveling since COVID.
As my Dad always said, know your pilots nationality before take off, training & skills differ.....I agree. If they're not American, English, German, French this ole boy stays on the ground until....way too many experts want to blame the planes when disaster strikes, I'm sure many will disagree.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
junkballer, I trained many foreign student pilots: Danes, Germans, South Africans, Vietnamese, but especially Iranians. While I will likely never fly a foreign-flagged airline, I'd confidently climb aboard with any of the above - except an Iranian. Even back then - during the Shah's reign - most of them were marginal at best. Due to diplomatic pressure, we were not really permitted to flunk any of them without extreme difficulty, but many of them should have been eliminated from the program.
(They're all dead now. When the Shah was deposed, the Revolutionary government demanded they all be shipped home immediately. Rumor is that when their planes landed, they were all summarily executed because they were all more or less princes under the Shah.)
Oh, I'm sure there are good qualified pilots out there, same as a few not so good here at home. My Dad was a WW-2 fighter pilot and later trained many foreign nationals also, here and abroad before coming home to farm and instructed civilians and Ag pilots here at home. The above advice he gave me and my brothers ( who he also taught ) was #2 on his list.......# 1 was watch the weather & the birds, if the birds aren't flying keep your *ss on the ground, they know more about flying than we ever will, it comes natural to them. He passed due to natural cause at the age of 67 with 22+ thousand hrs. logged. Me, I don't know how many hrs. I have but I have my limits and guidelines too and those are the top 2 for me.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Is this a sign that covid might be on the decline.
A different news story for a change.
I flew Ethiopian Air a few times. I don't recall what kind of plan it was but I was glad when we landed.
I know its not a 737 max and I understand its an old aircraft flown by an budget airline, but lets see what happens on the stock market on monday. This is not going to help Boeing, which is a shame.