This request was made by the pilot of the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Aleksander Yablontsev, to air traffic controllers (ATC) at Soekarno-Hatta Airport as he was about to lower his altitude. His Russian accent was thick, but whatever the nationality of the pilot, that is a standard request," said M. Lubis, an Airbus 330 pilot for Garuda Indonesia.

The request was made about 10 minutes before this modern jet crashed into the Batu Tapak slope of Mount Salak