Landing Jets With Passengers At IKN Airport Runs Smoothly

Jet landed at IKN (photo: Ministry of Transportation)

JAKARTA - The inaugural landing of the jet passengers at IKN Airport, East Kalimantan, was smooth and safe. The landing test was carried out today with a Cessna Citation Longitude jet.

The jet plane belonging to the Kalibrasi Center for Aviation Facilities of the Ministry of Transportation brought Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi and Deputy Minister of ATR/BPN Raja Juli Antoni with their entourage.

"Today, we are conducting a proving flight with Cessna Citation Longitude, one jet with the same qualifications as the Boeing 737. Alhamdulillah, the plane we were traveling on managed to land smoothly and safely at IKN Airport," said Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi, in an official statement, Thursday, September 12.

Budi said that his first landing at IKN Airport was very memorable and extraordinary. Apart from the smooth landing, the plane's crackdown was also treated to the beautiful IKN view before ending the flight.

"As before landing, we were treated to beautiful and amazing IKN views. This is in accordance with the big concept of early development that retains the greenness element," he explained.

Furthermore, Budi said, the verification and calibration stages of IKN Airport had been completed a few days ago. As a result, the safety and security aspects of flights at IKN airport have been confirmed to meet standards.

"Verification has been carried out from September 8 to 9, 2024, then the calibration has been carried out on September 10, 2024. That way, IKN Airport is ready to be used to take off and land the presidential plane during the President's office at IKN," he said.

Meanwhile, Capt. Win Warsono, who is the pilot of the Cessna Citation Longitude aircraft, said the flight was the first to go to IKN Airport for the class C jet engine category.

Win explained that he and the crew had received data information from the Airport Directorate and the verification team, so that the data could be entered into the Longitude aircraft navigation system.

Furthermore, he said Airnav and the Navigation Directorate had also evaluated security and safety procedures, where the results were very satisfying.

Overall, from our analysis, this existing runway has very bitting asphalt. That is, the braking action is extraordinary. Before 2,200 meters, it stopped with normal configurations," explained Capt. Win Warsono.