After The Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Accident, The Ministry Of Transportation Conducted An Inspection Of Boeing Aircraft

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation has examined the Boeing 737 aircraft used by a number of airlines in Indonesia.

This was conveyed by him at the Working Meeting with Commission V DPR RI which also involved a number of parties related to the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 accident.

"We immediately examined Boeing aircraft in Indonesia," said the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi in a meeting broadcast on the official Facebook page of the Indonesian Parliament, Wednesday, February 3.

He said that all types of Boeing 737s from the 300 to 500 series were examined by his line ministries due to this incident.

"The Ministry of Transportation is still and will continue to conduct checks on the operation of Boeing 737-300 / 400/500 in Indonesia since January 12," he said.

The Ministry of Transportation in safety measures also provides technical guidance to deal with technical problems. This activity was carried out on January 29.

"We provide technical guidance regarding the handling of repeated technical problems on aircraft or repetitive defects as a follow-up to Circular 46 of 2018," explained the Minister of Transportation.

As previously reported, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft on the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact in the Thousand Islands shortly after taking off from Soekarno Hatta Airport on Saturday, January 9, 2020.

Furthermore, the authorities confirmed that the plane crashed around Male Island and Lancang Island, Thousand Islands at around 14:40 WIB.

The number of passengers who took part in the unfortunate flight consisted of 56 aircraft passengers and 6 crew members. After the incident, the number of passengers who have been identified has reached 58 out of a total of 62 people.