A aeronave Sukhoi Superjet-100 decolou de Jacarta às 4h21 desta madrugada e perdeu contato com o radar 21 minutos depois, perto da cordilheira de Salak, após a tripulação pedir permissão para o controle de tráfego aéreo para descer de 3.000 metros de altitude para 1.800 metros. Nenhuma explicação foi dada para a repentina mudança de curso. De acordo com as primeiras informações, chuviscava no momento do incidente.
"Eu vi um grande avião passando logo acima da minha casa", disse Juanda, uma moradora que vive perto das montanhas, à emissora local TVOne. "A aeronave virou um pouco para o lado, a turbina fazia barulho", afirmou. "Parecia estar indo em direção a Salak, mas eu não ouvi explosão ou qualquer coisa."
O chefe da agência de busca nacional e resgate, Rear Marshal Daryatmo, disse que diversos diplomatas da embaixada russa, potenciais compradores das principais companhias aéreas da Indonésia e jornalistas estavam a bordo do que deveria ser um voo de demonstração de 50 minutos - o segundo do dia.
A Sukhoi Sukhoi Superjet 100-95, registration RA-97004 performing a demonstration flight from Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport to Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport (Indonesia) with 36 passengers, 6 crew and 2 Sukhoi officials, was enroute near Mount Salak and Bogor about 36nm south of Jakarta about 30 minutes into the flight when the radio contact with the aircraft was lost. The aircraft has not turned up at Jakarta or any other airport in the area and would have run out of fuel by now.
No ELT signal has been located so far.
Indonesian Authorities reported the aircraft was enroute at 10,000 feet near Mount Salak when at about 15:30L (08:30Z) the crew requested and was cleared to descend to 6,000 feet. This proved to be the last radio transmission. Radar contact was lost when the aircraft was in a right hand turn descending through 6,200 feet between Mount Salak and Mount Gede at approximate position S6.72 E106.72. The aircraft was flying clockwise around Mount Salak at that time. A search operation has been initiated and is mounting, first search flights have not yet found any trace of the aircraft other than some inofficial blogger sources on the Internet claim. The search flights are currently suspended due to nightfall in Indonesia. Search on the ground is under way, a first team has departed for Mount Salak in the evening, a second ground team is expected to depart on May 10th early morning, more than 250 ground personnel will have been deployed at sunrise May 10th.
Mount Salak is 2,211 meters/7254 feet high, nearby Mount Gede is 2,958 meters/9,705 feet high.
At 15:30L the local weatherstation in Bogor reported visibility at 9000 meters (increasing to 10000 meters in the next reading), temperature at 31 degrees C, dew point at 25 degrees C, humidity 70% and winds arund 5 knots from northeast, no precipitation. In the morning the weatherstation had reported low visibility around about 2000 meters.
The aircraft in Jakarta on May 8th 2012:
No ELT signal has been located so far.
Indonesian Authorities reported the aircraft was enroute at 10,000 feet near Mount Salak when at about 15:30L (08:30Z) the crew requested and was cleared to descend to 6,000 feet. This proved to be the last radio transmission. Radar contact was lost when the aircraft was in a right hand turn descending through 6,200 feet between Mount Salak and Mount Gede at approximate position S6.72 E106.72. The aircraft was flying clockwise around Mount Salak at that time. A search operation has been initiated and is mounting, first search flights have not yet found any trace of the aircraft other than some inofficial blogger sources on the Internet claim. The search flights are currently suspended due to nightfall in Indonesia. Search on the ground is under way, a first team has departed for Mount Salak in the evening, a second ground team is expected to depart on May 10th early morning, more than 250 ground personnel will have been deployed at sunrise May 10th.
Mount Salak is 2,211 meters/7254 feet high, nearby Mount Gede is 2,958 meters/9,705 feet high.
At 15:30L the local weatherstation in Bogor reported visibility at 9000 meters (increasing to 10000 meters in the next reading), temperature at 31 degrees C, dew point at 25 degrees C, humidity 70% and winds arund 5 knots from northeast, no precipitation. In the morning the weatherstation had reported low visibility around about 2000 meters.
The aircraft in Jakarta on May 8th 2012:
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