The Pigeon Express
Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air that is in the spotlight this week after its Boeing 737-500 crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday with 62 people on board, started with just one plane in 2003 and now it’s the country’s No.3 airline group, aided by its strategy of acquiring old planes at cheap prices and serving routes […]
Indonesian Navy divers retrieved the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board at the weekend, officials said. Divers had also found a separate radio beacon, raising hopes that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) it was connected to could soon be found and […]
Sriwijaya Air aircraft that crashed into the sea off the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia had passed an airworthiness inspection last month, officials said. Flight SJ182 was grounded between March and December last year, resumed commercial flights on 22 December. Preliminary findings also showed the aircraft was still functioning and intact before it crashed. The plane […]
Captain Afwan Zamzami, 54, left home quickly on the day of the doomed flight complaining that “his shirt hadn’t been ironed, when usually he is really neat”. Captain Afwan started his flying career in the air force before becoming a commercial pilot in 1987. His family and colleagues say he was devoted Muslim, eager to […]
Indonesian Navy have released footage of divers looking through the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed into the sea during the weekend as the hunt for its black boxes resumes. ‘No Survivors’ Indonesian plane Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 disappeared shortly after take off from capital Jakarta on Saturday. The Boeing 737-500 had 62 people on […]