Adam Air 737 Accident Briefing I

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2007, January 1st. – Indonesia, town of Polewali: A Boeing 737-400, registration PK-KKW operated by Adam Air with a crew of 6 and 96 passengers, including 11 children and three foreign citizens, crashed in a mountainous region 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the town of Polewali in western Sulawesi. The aircraft was on the domestic two-hour flight DHI-574 from Surabaya on Java island to Manado, the capital of the North Sulawesi province.
The aircraft had departed at 12:55 local time (05:55 UTC) and contact with Ujunf Pandang ATC radar was lost at 14:53 local time (07:07 UTC).

Data received from Singapore Satellite Detection Signal which sits at the coordinate of 01.30 S 124.45 E showed that the position of the aircraft is at 030 13’92’’ S 1190 09’17’’ E.

According to preliminary reports 12 people (6 crew and 6 passengers) survived the accident.

Adam Air (www.flyadamair.com), founded by Agung Laksono, the speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives and the company's chairman, began operations in 2003. It is one of a variety of budget airlines that have emerged in Indonesia since 1999, when the Indonesian aviation industry was deregulated. The rapid expansion has led to cheap flights to many destinations around the sprawling island nation of Indonesia.

The Boeing 737 airplane (Serial Number 24070 LN:1665; Type 737-4Q8)
made its first flight on January 11, 1989 and was registered in the name of Dan-Air in London on January, 26, 1989. Adams Air, the eighth owner, registered the aircraft in its name on December 1, 2005. The aircraft had flown 45,371 hours. The last inspection took place on December 25, 2006.

In 2005, another Adam air airplane lost its entire communication and navigation systems for four hours during a flight between the Indonesian capital Jakarta and Makassar on Sulawesi Island, and subsequently made an emergency landing.

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