More Indonesia’s Adam Air woes

A passenger jet operated by Indonesia’s Adam Air made a hard landing yesterday that cracked its body. All 148 passengers were safe, the budget carrier said in a statement, but airport of Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and the capital of East Java province, was temporarily shut after the stricken Boeing 737-300 arriving from Jakarta landed and stopped suddenly in the middle of the runway, with its rear section bent downwards just behind the wing.
The incident came amid heavy rain.

The Jakarta Post reported, management of Adam Air has painted its ill-fated plane, which made hard landing at Juanda international airport in East Java’s capital of Surabaya Wednesday.

Antara news agency reported that the whole body of the Boeing 737-300 plane had turned into white from its orange dominant color of the airline.

On Jan. 1 an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 with 102 people disappeared from radar screens during a domestic flight from Surabaya to Manado in the north of Sulawesi island.

No bodies have been found from the plane, although some debris has been recovered from the sea off South Sulawesi.

However, Adam Skyconnection Airlines recently said the Jan. 1 crash of one of its aircraft will not affect expansion plans as the Indonesian budget carrier will pursue adding 60 planes within five years and searching for a strategic investor.

Air travel in Indonesia, home to 220 million people, has grown substantially since the liberalisation of the airline industry after the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

Source: The Jakarta Post, Reuters, The Brunei Times, International Herald Tribune | Photo source

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