we’re only a few days into 2021 and we already have our first

 Unfortunately we’re only a couple of days into 2021 and that we have already got our first major airline crash. Keeping it brief, here’s the fundamentals of what we know:


The airline: Sriwijaya Air is an Indonesian low-cost carrier that has operated since the first 2000s, with domestic and a couple of short international routes. The airline has had a couple of runway overrun accidents, but nothing like this before. However the Indonesian low-cost carrier segment as an entire , which has been growing like wildfire to accommodate demand in its developing home country, has been fraught with questions of safety .



A 737-500 operated by Sriwijaya Air subsidiary NAM Air – from the airline website


The airplane: The aircraft involved was a 26-year-old Boeing 737-500 with the registration PK-CLC. it had been first operated by Continental Airlines, and came to Sriwijaya later in its life. Of course, this is often not a 737 MAX. It’s from a generation of the 737 lineage with a longstanding great safety record overall. So far, most of the mainstream media coverage we’ve seen has made that distinction clear, which we’re glad to ascertain (for the sake of keeping unnecessary hysteria to a minimum).


The flight, SJ182: The flight had 62 people on board. All that we all know about the five-minute flight for now's from flight tracker data, and it's just like the plane lost over 10,000 feet of altitude in but a moment , four minutes into the flight. A trajectory like that means something significantly worse than an engine loss or minor malfunction. Other losses of aircraft with pre-crash trajectories like that are suffering from things like bombs, unrecovered stalls, or a very catastrophic level of injury to the airframe. As for what happened during this case, it’s far too early to take a position . There was definitely some inclemency within the area, though we don’t have granular enough data to understand exactly what was happening round the plane at the purpose it began its dive.



Courtesy of FlightRadar24 – flightradar24.com


Wreckage has been spotted within the water, and it doesn't appear likely that there are any survivors. Our thoughts leave to the passengers and crew lost, and their families. We’ll be keeping an eye fixed on the news, though airline incident investigations are thorough and sometimes take a while to yield definitive findings.

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