Dangdut At 30,000 Feet

In the first half of 2012 alone there were about 40 major and minor incidents which occurred as a result of air traffic controllers negligence, nearly causing disasters.

June 20, 2012

An air traffic controller contacted the pilot of Air Asia flight QZ 7911: descend from an altitude of 38,000 feet to 25,000 feet. Flying from Denpasar to Bandung, at 2:30pm, on Thursday four weeks ago, the plane was passing over Madinan air navigation point over the Java Sea, north of Semarang.

Nearing Cirebon, on the navigation map with code CA, the warning system which alerts planes to the presence of another plane nearby and thus preventing a

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