Feb24th

Adam Air Gets Bent

It’s a rare weekend post for me, but I thought this was worth it.

Remember Adam Air? The Indonesian airline had a 737 go down off the coast of Indonesia in January. Well, now they’ve had another, um, incident. Another 737 came in for a hard landing in Surabaya, and well, Stuff.co.nz has this amazing picture.

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That must have been a REALLY hard landing. As you might expect, the Indonesian government is not too thrilled about this. Instead of giving greater scrutiny to Adam Air, they’ve decided to instead require inspections of all 737-300s operating in the country. I’m pretty sure that’s not the problem here.


Jan8th

Adam Air - Still Looking

Remember that Adam Air plane crash in Indonesia last week? Well despite one false report, they unbelievably still haven’t found the plane’s remains yet. I can’t imagine that happening in the US or Europe today, but Indonesia is a whole different story.



There’s a report now that an Indonesian naval ship has found metal on the ocean floor that may be the remains. That could certainly explain why they haven’t found the remains yet. It’s also said that if it did indeed crash into the ocean, the pieces could have drifted for hundreds of miles. Sheesh.



It sounds like investigators are now starting to wonder what happened even without the aircraft remains. Some are speculating that it happened quickly and involved either metal fatigue or a bomb. I assume these predictions are based on the lack of communications with air traffic control. If it were a more drawn out problem, they could have reported it, but that certainly doesn’t mean we can jump to conclusions yet


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