Govt considers evaluation of Russia’s Sukhoi safety audit - The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 05/10/2012 9:19 PM
Indonesia National Air Carrier Association (INACA) secretary general Tengku Burhanuddin said the crash of would not affect local demand for such aircraft.
“We need jets like that to connect one city to another to support economic growth,” he said.
He did not want to speculate on the cause of the crash, but said that the pilots pushed the plane to the limit in the first joy-flight, in which he participated in on the morning of the crash.
Superjet Disappears South of Jakarta: Notes From an Aviation Consultant | The Jakarta Globe
"Flying to the south of Jakarta is dangerous if only armed with a Jeppesen map: No terrain depiction, only the minimum safe altitude (MSA) is there.
As you can see from Image 2 -- which I picked from Lido chart -- Mt. Salak and Pangrango are just outside the MSA limit. Note minimum of route altitudes (MORA) is 11900 and 10300. On the Jeppesen, this is not depicted on Halim airport approach charts, nor on the STAR charts for HLP or CGK."
"A witness onboard on an earlier flight told me that the previous flight was departing and arriving Halim 24. The pilots only had the approach and airport ground charts. Seeing the nave displays on the previous flight, it looks like they simply planned to depart, go along R206 airway (R-195 HLM) until about 30NM and turn back."