Originally Posted by
Airbubba
And it's not unusual to overfly Batam when on an extended downwind for a landing to the north at SIN in my experience.
Indonesia indeed wants a chunk of that Singapore FIR and this dispute has been going on for years.
Looks like the Ethiopian non-sked cargo flight was a juicy target of opportunity for Jakarta.
From Singapore's Straits Times a couple of days before the intercept:
After the intercept this crowing of victory in the Jakarta Post:
The 777 repositioned to SIN and then flew to HKG yesterday:
The flight was delivering a Trent 1000 engine according to this AIN article:
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...ines-freighter
Some analysis of the situation from a flight planning perspective on this blog post:
https://ops.group/blog/tag/singapore-fir/
Thanks for adding all this info.