Aviation standards in Indonesia, and especially at fields like Medan, are rock bottom. Put it down to the usual mix of incompetence, corruption, and a third-world approach to professionalism. First-hand experience leads me to make these comments, after the fatal accidents in Solo City and Medan in the last 2 years. A great pity.
U should feel lucky that you don't have to deal with it on a daily basis
SWH,
Well, I dunno who reads both places that's why
The initial description that the media gave also led me to believe that the aircraft crashed somewhere else... Until those sets of shots... the debris trail, then the "lokasi crash"...
Then the witness accounts began to take a more uniformed direction indicating where the aircraft went.
Nurries mate, I was also initially thinking "It couldn't have crashed that soon"...
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Ignition,
Now the media is screaming "were there 2 tons of durian in the aircraft as "extra cargo"" ? But anyways...
But a TOW of 3 kgs below the MTOW on the loadsheet looks "iffy"... But if the culprits had done this "iffy" practice regularly and have gotten away with it so far, I'm sure something else must have happened that made it crash...
If "iffy" loadsheet was the/one of the cause(s) of the crash, this would not be the first time in Indonesia... Some people better be assigned to scraping burnt body remains off the crash site before being sent to being in charge of the loadsheet.
PK-KAR