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Post by Swampy on Jul 1, 2015 1:09:06 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on Jul 1, 2015 3:15:22 GMT -5
My bet would be pilot error!
The Indon Air Force has a VERY bad rep in OZ military circles.
SJ
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Post by Premier on Jul 1, 2015 16:33:46 GMT -5
It was apparently one of the older model C-130s that Australia gifted to Indonesia fully reconditioned, on the news pilot error was mentioned, but I wonder if over loading was not also a serious problem?
During the 1980s I was flying Garuda from Manila Philippines to Jakarta Indonesia, the aircraft was a DC-9 and I was unhappy when I reached my seat with the rundown interior and exterior window covers difficult to see through, and there was no seatbelt buckle. When the aircraft lifted off I noticed a mist coming from a vent near the cockpit door and weeks later an aircraft engineer work colleague explained it would have been caused by a dirty air conditioning filter. En route the aircraft landed once, I forget the name of the airfield. Dropping altitude quite quickly there was a very long sandy beach and coconut palms and then the aircraft banked hard left, I mean really hard, and then headed into a steeper dive. Finally it banged down on the runway so hard that a number of overhead locker doors sprang open. The passenger sitting alongside me was freaking out and I was not happy either.
The takeoff was not a problem but the final landing at Jakarta was also very rough, but not quite as bad as the earlier landing. I have flown on internal flights in Indonesia in smaller passenger aircraft and have never been comfortable doing it.
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Post by hornet32 on Jul 1, 2015 18:15:25 GMT -5
When I flew to Japan from Hawaii I think the Plane was a DC-9 several hours out we went into a very deep dive to a shallow approach with nothing to see from either side but the Pacific ocean it turned out we were landing at Wake Island for re-fueling Wake Island was a tiny little pin prick in a Very big Ocean don't know if its still a re-fueling station or not .
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Post by Premier on Jul 2, 2015 1:38:07 GMT -5
I read that the C-130 that crashed did have about 130 passengers and they were not officially on board, they paid above standard airfare for the flight. Also on board was thousands of rounds of ammunition, being flown to a remote island part of Indonesia? What for? On forwarding to the Middle East maybe?
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Post by Sir John on Jul 2, 2015 14:16:13 GMT -5
Did they have all the skinny kids in the front, and all the fat adults in the tail?
....or all the skinny ones om one side, and all the fat ones on the other. It landed upside down so that is probably the reason.
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Post by Premier on Jul 2, 2015 15:21:50 GMT -5
It must have been a stretched fuselage version conversion carried out by Balinese metal workers
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