Why is Indonesia prone to plane crashes?Past accidents have been attributed to poor pilot training, mechanical failures, air traffic control issues and poor aircraft maintenance.
10 Jan, 2021, 07.55 PM IST
Indonesia locates black boxes of crashed Sriwijaya Air jet as body parts, wreckage recoveredThe Boeing 737-500 with 62 passengers and crew was headed on a domestic flight to Pontianak in West Kalimantan on Saturday before it disapp...
10 Jan, 2021, 06.10 PM IST
Off-duty pilot saved doomed Lion Air's 737 Max on its next-to-last flightThat extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning...
20 Mar, 2019, 11.51 PM IST
Two short, erratic flights end in tragedy: Could they be linked?One difference between the two crashes: Indonesia Air said pilots on prior flights with the doomed jet had reported mechanical problems. Th...
11 Mar, 2019, 08.15 AM IST
DGCA in touch with regulator over Lion Air incidentEarly Monday morning, a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 800 aircraft operating flight JT 610 with 188 people on board crashed into the sea shortly ...
29 Oct, 2018, 06.25 PM IST
Delhi-based Bhavye Suneja captained Lion Air flight that crashed with 189 on boardSuneja, a resident of Mayur Vihar who passed out of the locality’s Ahlcon Public School in 2005, joined Indonesian Low Cost Carrier Lion Ai...
29 Oct, 2018, 02.51 PM IST
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes cried after last year's plane crash: Report51-year-old Fernandes said that words could not describe how he felt after the news broke that an AirAsia plane had disappeared on December...
23 Jul, 2015, 01.21 PM IST
AirAsia jet engine dies before takeoff, passengers disembarkAn AirAsia jet's engine failed just before its take off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya and the 120 passengers on board were asked to ...
04 Jan, 2015, 04.42 PM IST
AirAsia plane that crashed was flying on an unauthorised schedule: Indonesian Transport MinistryIndonesian Transport Ministry has said and suspended the airline's Surabaya-Singapore route for violating the operational hours.
03 Jan, 2015, 12.14 PM IST
AirAsia crash: Weather remains a worry in hunt for wreckageNine bodies have been recovered until now, Soelistyo said as the search in waters off Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan entered sixth day.
02 Jan, 2015, 03.50 PM IST
AirAsia Indonesia pilot fails drug test: AirlineAirAsia will conduct further tests with the cooperation of the National Narcotics Agency and the hospital of drug addiction to analyse the ...
01 Jan, 2015, 05.18 PM IST
AirAsia Indonesia-Singapore flight QZ8501 with 162 on board goes missingThe pilot had asked Indonesian air traffic control for a deviation due to weather conditions before communication was lost, AirAsia said.
28 Dec, 2014, 02.27 PM IST
'Maps in Malaysia report indicate MH370 flew to avoid radars': ReportMaps released on mysterious disappearance of Malaysian jet indicate that plane deliberately flew along route to evade military radars.
02 May, 2014, 03.53 PM IST
MH370 skirted Indonesia apparently to avoid radar: ReportThe plane's flight path clearly showed that someone on the plane was piloting the aircraft in this manner to avoid detection from Indonesia...
06 Apr, 2014, 09.38 PM IST
- Indonesia, EU meet to lift flight ban: Officials
Indonesian officials met counterparts from the European Union on Tuesday in an effort to get the bloc to lift a blanket ban on Indonesian a...
13 May, 2008, 04.22 PM IST
- EU's Indonesia airline ban 'unfair': Ministry
Indonesia on Monday criticised the European Union's failure to remove any of its airlines from a flight blacklist as "unfair," saying much ...
14 Apr, 2008, 08.39 AM IST
- Pilot licences from abroad likely to face scrutiny here
Getting pilot licences from countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia may be easier but think before you plan to go for one.
14 Jul, 2007, 04.15 AM IST