On the Straight and Narrow Flight Path

Adam Air pilots often fly planes with malfunctioning instruments in the cockpit. Some go off course, while others choose to turn back.

January 9, 2007

SOMETHING caught the attention of Captain Sutan Solahudin while he was reading some notes he had just received. The report said that the Boeing 737-300 which he was scheduled to fly in another hour had damage to its navigational system. He shuffled the notes, but could not find an explanation from the technicians that the plane was fit to fly. Sutan refused to fly the Adam Air plane from Jakarta to Padang, even though, I was pressured by the owne

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