it is near imposiible for any pilot to make it to line if they are not of the highest quality and order. I stand to be corrected on that statement.
Lion Air Flight 8987, a
McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed after landing at
Juanda International Airport. Reverse thrust was used during landing, although the left thrust reverser was stated to be out of service. This caused the aircraft to veer to the right and skid off the runway, coming to rest about 7,000 feet (2,100 m) from the approach end of the runway. No-one was killed but the aircraft was badly damaged.
Lion Air Flight 792, a
Boeing 737-400, landed with an incorrect flap configuration and was not aligned with the runway. The plane landed hard and skidded along the runway causing the right main landing gear to detach, the left gear to protrude through the wing and some of the aircraft fuselage to be wrinkled. No one was killed and the aircraft was
written off.
Lion Air Flight 712, a
Boeing 737-400 (registration PK-LIQ) overran the runway on landing at
Supadio Airport,
Pontianak, coming to rest on its belly and sustaining damage to its nose gear. All 174 passengers and crew evacuated by the emergency slides, with few injuries reported.
Adam Air
Flight 782, registration number PK-KKE, lost navigational and communications systems twenty minutes into a flight from
Jakarta to
Makassar,
Sulawesi. The plane was subsequently flown into a radar "black spot" and was lost for several hours, eventually making an emergency landing at
Tambolaka Airport,
Sumba (on a different island 481 km away from their intended destination, and southeast from their origin, instead of northeast). The pilot in that incident was fired. Adam Air broke multiple safety regulations, including removing an aircraft before it was due for inspection by aviation authorities.
On January 1, 2007, air traffic controllers lost contact with
flight 574 en route from
Surabaya (
SUB) to
Manado (
MDC). The aircraft, a
Boeing 737-400 with the registration PK-KKW, had 96 passengers and 6 crew. On January 10, parts of the aircraft's tail stabilizer were found 300m offshore.
The flight recorders and suspected debris were located, but were not initially recovered due to a dispute between Adam Air and the
Indonesian Government over who should pay recovery costs.
[11] Both recorders were retrieved after Adam Air agreed to pay for 7 days worth of searching. A 2009 episode of
Mayday (
Air Crash Investigation,
Air Emergency) about Flight 574 stated that the official crash report had concluded the
Inertial Reference System (IRS) had failed. This failure, which should not by itself have brought the plane down, caused the pilots to become preoccupied with trying to fix it. After changing the IRS from "Navigate" mode to "Attitude" mode, the pilots failed to manually fly the plane while the computer system recalibrated, a procedure that takes about 30 seconds. The failure to maintain straight and level flight during the recalibration caused the autopilot to completely disengage and cease compensating for the plane's tendency to roll to the right, which caused the nose of the plane to dip. In attempting to correct the pitch of the aircraft before levelling the wings, the pilot sent the aircraft into an unrecoverable downward spiral, leading to the plane suffering massive structural failure as it descended at near the speed of sound.
On February 21, 2007
Flight 172, an Adam Air
Boeing 737-300 aircraft flying from
Jakarta to
Surabaya with registration PK-KKV, had a hard landing at
Juanda International Airport. The incident caused the fuselage of the plane to crack and bend at the middle, with the tail of the plane drooping towards the ground. There were no reports of serious injuries from the incident. Subsequent flights to the airport were diverted to alternate airports. As a result, six Adam Air 737s were grounded awaiting safety checks, but five of these were then put back in regular service. Adam Air described this as "harsh punishment" for an accident it blamed on poor weather conditions, but
Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said that all Boeing 737-300s should be checked.
On March 10, 2008, an Adam Air
Boeing 737-400 aircraft flying from
Jakarta to
Batam skidded 75 metres off the end of the runway while landing in Batam. All passengers survived, with two passengers treated for shock. The plane sustained damage to one wing.
[14][15] This accident contributed to the airline's demise, just eight days later, and the formal revocation of its AOC two months later. The incident also illustrated that crew were not trained correctly on evacuation procedures. In particular during the evacuation of this aircraft no slides were deployed to get the passengers off the aircraft.
Consider yourself corrected.