Lion Air Flight 904
Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung, Indonesia | |
Destination | Ngurah Rai International Airport, Denpasar, Indonesia |
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Occupants | 108 |
Passengers | 101 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Injuries | 46 |
Survivors | 108 |
Lion Air Flight 904 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from
Among the findings contained in the final investigation report was that the crew continued the approach in adverse weather conditions beyond the point at which the approved procedure would have required to abort the landing. The subsequent attempt to
Aircraft
The
Crew and passengers
There were two pilots and 5 flight attendants with 101 passengers on board consisting of 95 adults, 5 children and 1 infant. 97 passengers were Indonesians, one French, one Belgian, and two Singaporeans. 6 of the crew were Indonesian while one came from India.[4]
The captain was 48-year-old Mahlup Ghazali, an Indonesian national who joined Lion Air in 2013 and had logged 15,000 hours of flight experience, including 6,173 hours on the Boeing 737.[5][6] The first officer was 24-year-old Chirag Kalra, an Indian national who had 1,200 flight hours, with 973 of them on the Boeing 737.[5][7]
Investigation
The Indonesian
In January 2017, Budi Waseso, the chief of Indonesia's national narcotics agency, alleged that the pilot of Lion Air Flight 904 was under the influence of drugs at the time of the accident, and had hallucinated that the sea was part of the runway. That claim directly contradicted the statement made after the accident by Indonesia's transport ministry, which said the pilots had not tested positive for drugs.[10]
The NTSC concluded that the flight path became unstable below minimum descent altitude with the rate of descent exceeding 1000 feet per minute. Analysis of the
See also
- Air Niugini Flight 73 – A Boeing 737 that crashed in similar circumstances in 2018
- Japan Air Lines Flight 2 – A DC-8 that crashed in San Francisco Bay in 1968
- Miami Air International Flight 293 – A Boeing 737 that crashed in a storm in 2019
References
- ^ Hradecky, Simon (1 May 2013). "Accident: Lionair B738 at Denpasar on Apr 13th 2013, landed short of runway and came to stop in sea". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ Haryanto, Arif. "Kronologi Insiden Lion Air LNI 904 PK-LKS di Bandara Ngurah Rai" [Chronology of Incident involving Lion Air LNI 904 PK-LKS at Ngurah Rai Airport] (in Indonesian). Angkasa Pura Airports. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
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- ^ Firdaus, Fahmi (15 April 2013). "Kecepatan Lion Air Capai 350 Km Jam" [Lion Air Speed Reaches 350 Km Hours]. nasional.okezone.com (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ "Final Report Lion Air Flight 904 – Pilot Error - Cockpit Chatter". Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ "Preliminary Report No. KNKT.13.04.09.04" (PDF). National Transport Safety Committee. 14 May 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ "Bali crash pilot 'hallucinated', says Indonesia anti-narcotics boss". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 January 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2017.