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Pilot error blamed for jet crash in Indonesia
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December 19, 2012, Wednesday
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PILOT error caused a Russian-made passenger jet to crash into an Indonesia volcano seven months ago during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people aboard, Indonesia's National Commission on Safety Transportation said yesterday.
Information recovered from the Sukhoi Superjet-100's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder indicated the pilot in command was chatting with a potential buyer in the cockpit just before the jet slammed into dormant Mount Salak on May 9, Commission Chairman Tatang Kurniadi said in Jakarta.
He said that 38 seconds before the crash, instruments inside the cockpit issued a warning saying "pull up, terrain ahead." Later the warning "avoid terrain" was issued six times, but the instruments were turned off because the crew assumed there was a problem with the database. He added that a simulation showed that the crash could have been avoided if the crew had responded within 24 seconds of the first warning.
"The crew was not aware of the mountainous area surrounding the flight path," Kurniadi said.
Russian pilot Alexander Yablontsev was in charge of the demonstration flight meant to woo potential buyers. He was an experienced test pilot, logging 10,000 hours in the Sukhoi Superjet and its prototypes.
The Superjet is Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago.
Information recovered from the Sukhoi Superjet-100's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder indicated the pilot in command was chatting with a potential buyer in the cockpit just before the jet slammed into dormant Mount Salak on May 9, Commission Chairman Tatang Kurniadi said in Jakarta.
He said that 38 seconds before the crash, instruments inside the cockpit issued a warning saying "pull up, terrain ahead." Later the warning "avoid terrain" was issued six times, but the instruments were turned off because the crew assumed there was a problem with the database. He added that a simulation showed that the crash could have been avoided if the crew had responded within 24 seconds of the first warning.
"The crew was not aware of the mountainous area surrounding the flight path," Kurniadi said.
Russian pilot Alexander Yablontsev was in charge of the demonstration flight meant to woo potential buyers. He was an experienced test pilot, logging 10,000 hours in the Sukhoi Superjet and its prototypes.
The Superjet is Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago.
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