This is my final say on this one routetuner as we are way off thread.

see link in post 38 above.

At the time of the accident 05R was a promulgated runway Notamed as under repair.

There was nothing wrong with the SIA SOPs, sadly and for reasons known only to the crew, on 31st October, 2000 they were not properly observed or complied with. Black is black and white is white, you can't swap them around to suit your own version of events. Endex.

Saying it again and again doesn't make an untrue fact true. I used it for take-off more than once less than 15 ago. Get your facts right!

Some examples of Singaporean business practices and openness:

Singapore Airlines: less than exemplary safety record over the years

Tiger Airways: a cheap and nasty outfit, grounded by Australia's safety authority for a period due to safety concerns

Silk Air: there will always be a question mark over what actually went on in the cockpit of one of its 737's before it impacted the ground in a vertical dive

Dreadful fires a few years ago in Victoria, Australia, which killed hundreds, some caused by faulty powerlines; guess which country's pension fund owns them...

That same statement can be applied to just about every carrier at one time or another.

Singaporean money but the Australian registered arm of the company is staffed and run by Australians.

The NTSB are in no doubt as to what happened, the only 'doubt' was deliberately spreadby the Indonesian DGCA as a facesaving exercise.


Now you are really drawing a long bow! See above re theAustralian run arm of Tiger Airways.

alavega
 

Were the tower controllers aware of that? In LVP how do you identify the runway if it's a taxyway?