Sriwijaya Air Flight 182

[ImNotARobot]

737 down in the ocean near Jakarata

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/indonesian-authorities-have-lost-contact-sriwijaya-air-flight-182

 

[HuggyU2]

Rule of Thumb:  If you cannot drink the tap water in a country, don’t fly their nation’s airlines. 

[stract]

I've flown Garuda and Lion Air (in 2019) and lived... Kinda hard to avoid when you have to fly between multiple islands for work.

Edited January 12, 2021 by stract

[ImNotARobot]

Yeah, I can see that. The FedEx pilots living out near/at HKG have similar issues. Simply not possible to avoid in some cases. There is a list of approved airlines the company is allowed to use though; a lot of these smaller national airlines are excluded from the approved list.

[SurelySerious]

The Indonesian airline that just suffered another Boeing 737 crash has a history of 4 accidents in the last 9 years — all with the same plane

 

All previous were runway “excursions” from what I read. 

[HuggyU2]

23 hours ago, stract said:

I've flown Garuda and Lion Air (in 2019) and lived... 

How was the experience?

[stract]

On 1/12/2021 at 10:27 PM, HuggyU2 said:

How was the experience?

Garuda was great.  14 hr flight between AMS and Jakarta, and hour flights between Jakarta and Pekanbaru/Surabaya.  Funnily enough, *I* got spatial D'd on takeoff from Surabaya just looking out the window because it was pitch black and immediately feet wet.  All cultural lighting was behind us.  I had to close the shade, lol.

Lion Air was fine, but the flight attendents were wearing flip flops basically.  Not great in an emergency egress situ, I wouldn't think.  We had to have our POC in country purchase our tix for this flight (Pekanbaru to Surabaya), because the corporate travel company wasn't allowed to.  It was a daytime flight and wx was SCT.