Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Firm (BMKG) has actually said that an early caution on weather condition had been issued on the day the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 crashed into the ocean on January 9, 2021.
” The early warning concerning the weather condition dominating Soekarno-Hatta International Airport’s airspace was provided at 1: 15 p.m. local time, though the visibility was getting better,” the company’s head, Dwikorita Karnawati, said.
” Based upon the weather condition observation at the airport, the weather condition turned bad at 1: 31 p.m.,” she told members of Commission V of your home of Representatives (DPR), which oversees transport, during a hearing here on Wednesday.
For that reason, travelers were not enabled to board the Boeing 737-500 jet, Karnawati stated, adding that at 2: 36 p.m., the weather began enhancing, so the air traffic controllers permitted the flight to remove.
However, the unfortunate aircraft, which was carrying 50 travelers and 12 team members, reportedly lost contact four minutes after removing, she stated.
The BMKG had actually predicted rains with thunderstorms in between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and cumulonimbus clouds at 1,800 ft over Soekarno-Hatta International Airport’s airspace on January 9, 2021, she stated.
More than 80 percent of the airport’s airspace was expected to be blanketed by clouds at 1,600 ft, the agency had actually forecast, she said.
” We conducted an observation by releasing weather balloons on January 7, 8, and 9 (2021),” she informed.
The weather condition observation had actually revealed a possibility of icing at 0-20 degrees Celsius at a height of 16 thousand to 27 thousand feet, while there was no possibility of icing at 11 thousand feet, Karnawati described.
From 1: 30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Western Indonesia Time (WIB) on the day of the crash, the weather was marked by rains with thunderstorms, and rainfall with moderate strength and lightning, she said.
The exposure was taped at around four thousand meters and it then increased to 5 thousand meters at 2: 30 p.m., she added.
The Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 crashed into the ocean near Jakarta quickly after removing from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten province on January 9, 2021.
According to the Indonesian Transport Ministry, the airport authorities lost contact with the flight serving the Jakarta-Pontianak route around 2: 40 p.m. local time.
The last contact with the Boeing 737-500 jet was made at 11 nautical miles north of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, after the aircraft crossed an altitude of 11 thousand feet and was ascending to 13 thousand feet.
The plane, bearing the registration number PK-CLC, removed at 2: 40 p.m. regional time and was arranged to land at Supadio Airport in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, at 3: 50 p.m. regional time on January 9, 2021.
The airplane’s flight data recorder (FDR) was retrieved by Indonesian Navy scuba divers from the seabed on January 12, 2021, but its cockpit voice recorder stays to be discovered.
The aircraft’s FDR has been handed over to the National Transport Security Commission (KNKT) for a post-crash assessment. (INE)
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