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Sriwijaya Air faces audit after pilots land at wrong airport

The Transportation Ministry says it will audit safety practices at Sriwijaya Air after one of the airline’s planes landed at the wrong airport.

“We are going to audit the airline as a corrective action to improve its safety because this is a serious incident,” ministry spokesman Bambang S. Ervan told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.

Official from the ministry’s air transportation directorate were on the way to Padang to investigate, while the plane’s pilot and co-pilot were grounded, Bambang said.

Sriwijaya SJ0021 departed from Polonia Airport in Medan, North Sumatra on Saturday. The plane was bound for Minangkabau International Airport in Padang but instead landed at Tabing Air Force Base, about 20 kilometers south of its intended destination.

According to Sriwijaya senior corporate communications manager Agus Soedjono, all of the passengers on the flight were safe and transferred by bus to Minangkabau International Airport.

He said that the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) was also investigating the case aside from the regulator.(iwa)

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Business | Sun, October 14 2012

This is translated from Indonesian news agency....(so english is not so good)

Sriwijaya Air plane that should be scheduled to land at Minangkabau International Airport (BIM) actually stray into Tabing Airport in Padang, West Sumatra (Sumatra), around 17:00 pm. The plane was piloted by Capt. J Gudonis.

"The name of pilot Capt J Gudonis and copilot Ricky Joseph," said public relations Sriwijaya Air, Agus Sujono, told AFP on Saturday (13/10/2012).

The plane originally departed from Medan Polonia Airport. The aircraft was carrying 96 passengers themselves. Agus himself refused to mention the country of origin Gudonis.

The entire passenger aircraft are safe. This incident itself has been entered in the investigation MoT.

Earlier, an airline owned Sriwijaya Air plane landed at the wrong airport Tabing Padang, West Sumatra (Sumatra), around 17:00 pm. The plane was flying from Medan to Padang was supposed to land at Minangkabau International Airport (BIM).

General managers Angkasa Pura II, Agus Kemal when confirmed one reporter confirmed the plane landed. Errors, presumably because the pilot did not know the area.

"Yes, it's true one lands. Aircraft landing from the south. Navigation No error or equipment in Minangkabau Airport. Entire equipment functioning properly, communication is also normal," he said.

The pilot brought the plane from the south of Padang Minangkabau Airport to land, but one thought Tabing Airport as Minangkabau airport where the plane should have landed.

"The error occurred because the pilot allegedly da co-pilot was not familiar with the area. They were both foreigners. Anyway, when we flew from the south, which looks first Tabing airport's run away," he said.