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JAKARTA. Transportation Minister E.E. Mangindaan unveiled on Monday the chronology of the recent Sukhoi Superjet 100 accident, which killed 45 people, before the House of Representatives' Commission V overseeing transportation.
The minister, along with officials from the Transportation Ministry and the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), was among the participants at a commission meeting arranged to look into the accident.
The Russian-made, commercial airplane, which was on a promotional flight, slammed into Mt. Salak in Bogor, West Java on May 9, killing all people on board. The accident has sparked concerns about air transportation safety standards in the country.
The chronology of events was as follows:
2:21 p.m. The aircraft, which was on its second demonstration flight, flew to a height of 10,000 feet after taking off 30 minutes earlier.
2:24 p.m. The plane requested to descend to 6,000 feet.
2:28 p.m. The plane requested to turn 360 degrees above the Atang Sanjaya airbase.
2:52 p.m. Atang Sanjaya’s air traffic control (ATC) in Bogor, West Java called in the airplane, which had disappeared from the ATC’s radar.
2:55 p.m. Soekarno-Hatta airport’s ATC reported to the air traffic service coordinator that the airplane had gone missing.
3:35 p.m. The airplane’s situation was declared “uncertain”.
4:05 p.m. Soekarno-Hatta’s ATC contacted the National Search and Rescue Agency.
4:55 p.m. An alert phase for the airplane was declared.
6:22 p.m. A distress phase was declared as the airplane was thought to have run out fuel.
(Margareth S. Aritonang and Sita W. Dewi/ The Jakarta Post)
