Chronology Of The Turangga Vs KRL Bandung Raya Train Accident KNKT Version

Acting Head of the KNKT Railway IK Buskom Gusnaedi Rachmanas. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) revealed the complete chronology of the results of the investigation related to the Bandung Raya Local Train (KA) accident with the Turangga train, on the single track km 181+700 plot between Haurpugur Station and Cicalengka Station on January 5, 2024.

Acting Head of Railway IK Kabuskom KNKT Gusnaedi Rachmanas said that the Cicalengka Station Train Travel Organizer (PPKA) initially sent information on the departure of the 121 Malabar train at Haurpugur Station.

Then, at 05.41 WIB Haurpugur Station received information on the departure of the Malabar train from Cicalengka Station. At 05.46 WIB there was KA 65A Turangga passing directly from Nagreg Station to Staisun Cicalengka.

PPKA Haupugur Station also contacted PPKA Cicalengka Station to check the position of the Turangga train and the Bandung Raya Local Train block crossing via block phone.

Gusnaedi said that at this position, the Railroad Traveler (PPKP) gave a safe signal to the Cicalengka Station PPKA. The provision of a safe block towards Cicalengka Station was given while the train departure process for 121 Malabar at Haurpugur Station from the direction of Cicalengka Station.

"Asking where the Turangga train is in, which crossover asked from Haurpugur Station to Cicalengka, it answered, "Wait a minute, I asked the control center," he said in a press conference, at the KNKT office, Jakarta, February 16.

Then, PPKA Cicalengka Station asked for a crossover from KA 65A Turangga to PPKP via TOKA telephone. The answer to the normal control center at Haurpugur Station," he continued.

Gusnaedi said PPKA Cicalengka Station tried to contact PPKA Haurpugur Station using TOKA three times. However, the call was not picked up by PPKA Haurpugur Station.

Furthermore, Gusnaedi said this was because PPKA officers were in front of the room and doing a Semboyan 1 for the Malabar train running directly on Line I.

"But when the Malabar train departed, there was a service carried out at Haurpugur. At that time the room was empty, at that time Cicalengka called to convey the question asked by PPKA Haurpugur where the train crossing was 65 Turangga," he explained.

Furthermore, said Gusnaedi, PKKA Haurpugur returned to the PPKA room and operated the monitor screen after PPKA Cicalengka Station wrote the process of recording the Malabar train service.

"At that time, a direct system signal appeared as if it were safe towards Cicalengka. The train could pass. Earlier he had asked the position of the train, so it was as if the questions that were answered by the system," he said.

"It was as if yellow was sent when the information sent from Haurpugur Station to Cicalengka was sent via fiber optic cable earlier," he continued.

At 05.51 WIB, PPKA Haurpugur formed a route for the arrival of the 350 CL Bandung Raya train entering and stopping at Line II Haurpugur Station. Then, PPKA Haurpugur Station made a motto 40 for the Bandung Raya Local Train in front of the PPKA room.

Then, at 05.52 a 350 CL Bandung Raya train started running from Line II. At 05.53, when the Bandung Raya Local Train occupied track 14AT (inital sign of the block towards Cicalengka Station), Haurpugur Station sent a warta off the Bandung Raya Local Train to Cicalengka Station.

After Haurpugur Station sent a signal of freelance news or info departing for the Bandung Raya Local Train to Cicalengka Station, the indicator for the mechanical block of Cicalengka Station changed to show white indicating that the plot of the road towards Haurpugur Station was safe for trains to pass.

Meanwhile, said Gusnaedi, PPKA Cicalengka Station is serving the Turangga train live route. After that, the station officer wrote a train warta.

Meanwhile, at Haurpugur Station, continued Gunaedi, the Bandung Raya Local Train has passed the track 14BT (the final sign of the block towards St. Cicalengka) at 05.55 and departed again at 05.56 WIB. Then PPKA Cicalengka Station sat down writing a train warta.

At 05.59 WIB, KA 65A Turangga passed directly from Cicalengka Station to Haurpugur Station. There was a collision between the Bandung Raya local train and KA 65A Turangga at KM 181+700 plots of Cicalengka Station-Haurpugur Station, "he explained.