By Zainal Arifin

 Jakarta – Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100)notes scrawled in the dark  history of flight. In flight ‘promotion’ in Indonesia, SSJ 100 fared quite  unlucky.

Head of Russia SAR suspect aircraft manufacturer that carries 50 people  crashed in the area of ​​Mount Salak, West Java. However, until now there is  no certainty.

From the data collected the media, Thursday (10/05/2012), SSJ 100 is a  long-distance aircraft with regional capabilities in which the capacity of  approximately 100 passengers. SSJ 100 was developed as well as designed  and manufactured Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) in cooperation with the Alinea Aeronautica.

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company is a subsidiary of United Aviation Corporation which manufactures civilian aircraft.

Who does not know Sukhoi? Military units have been very famous Sukhoi fighter who has the ability bermanuvernya. RI itself has had several Sukhoi fighter aircraft production.

How does the track record of passenger aircraft? Yes through the SSJ 100 aircraft is the Russian manufacturers expect much. Pretext SSJ 100 successfully underwent its first flight in May 2008. This aircraft has a maximum cruising speed capability 0.81 the speed of sound (Mach 0.81) and reached an altitude of40 000 feet.

SSJ 100 can operate (take off and landing) at an airport that has a runway length of1731 meters(basic version range) and up to2052 meters(long range version).

In the February 2011 and has achieved SSJ 100 Type Certificate (Type Certification) from the Certification Authority of Russia (the Russian Certification Authority IAC AR) and the expected certification of the European Union Aviation Authority (EASA) will be obtained in 2011. The first production of SSJ 100 have been delivered on 19April 2011 to Armavia Airline, a civil aviation company in Armenia.

It attracted national private airline, PT Sky Aviation. Sky Aviation plans to strengthen its fleet by buying 12 aircraft Sukhoi Super Jet 100 (SSJ 100) worth U.S. $ 380.4 SCAC.

“We sincerely hope that the aircraft can be received on August 17, 2012. We have prepared a number of routes, both domestic, international and regional routes for the operation of the SSJ 100 airplanes,” explains Managing Director of Sky Aviation Krisman Tarigan in Jakarta, late last year 2011.

The plan SSJ 100 aircraft will be operated on routes evenly in West Indonesia (Sumatra and Java), Central Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali and NTT) and the Eastern Indonesia (Maluku and Papua).

“With Fleet SSJ 100, Sky Aviation will open the flight routes between cities in Kalimantan that has not been serviced and ready to serve the community in the islands of Sulawesi, NTT, Maluku and Papua. Addition SSJ 100 airplanes, we will also add to the fleet with Sky Lander aircraft (19 passenger capacity) of 10 pieces, “he added.

Sky Aviation is a unit Petroneks Energy Group is a relatively new airline, pocketing the AOC 135 -144 of the Ministry of Transportation on May 14, 2009 and Business Licenses Scheduled Commercial Air Transportation on March 8, 2010.

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company president, Vladimir Prisyazhnyuk expressed his delight to work with Sky Aviation.

“The performance of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 will support the development of network-route Sky Aviation. We are optimistic that the aircraft could be delivered in August 2012,” he said.

In Indonesia, there are two airlines that have been cooperating with the SCAC and PT Kartika Airlines Merukh Ama Coal as the owner of PT Dirgantara Air Service and PT Sabang Merauke Air Charter (SMAC).

But at the beginning of the flight, SSJ 100 recorded bad history with the ill-fated incident. The plane lost contact after a 21 minute flight from Halim Perdanakusumah air base in the framework of its promotional flight.

SSJ 100 is expected to fall this makes all the local and international media to highlight sharp. This incident is the worst incident SSJ 100.

Based on the record of Russia Today, Wednesday (09/05/2012), there are some incidents that accompany the operation of this Russian-made aircraft. The incident happened just a minor incident. None of the incidents that resulted in injury or death of passengers in it.

The following incidents Sukhoi Superjet 100 experienced:

1. May 6, 2012, SSJ-100 exit off the runway while landing at the airport Kazan, Russia.

2. March 16, 2012, jet aircraft must turn back and return to Moscow for a flight to Astrakhan after crews found the landing gear can not be used fully.

3. December 25, 2011, SSJ-95 flight, which is a modification SUPERJET, from Minsk, Belarus, was canceled due to landing gear failure. The aircraft then returned to Moscow without a passenger.

While the latest case is lost the contact plane is SUPERJET around Bogor, West Java, on Wednesday afternoon (05/09/2012) at 14:33 pm. There are 50 people on the plane, where 8 people are Russian citizens.

According to a former test pilot from Russia, Magomed Tolboev, some areas of Jakarta has a rugged terrain. Tolboev previously been flying in this region.

“There is a field with mountains as high as6158 feet. It’s difficult,” he told Russia Today.

“The pilot should be able to see the mountain because it is very modern aircraft. Aircraft is equipped with the latest aviation equipment,” added Tolboev.

Sukhoi Superjet 100 is missing in the area of ​​Mount Salak, Bogor, on Wednesday (9/05/2012) allegedly fell in the crater of the Queen, Pamijahan Subdistrict, Bogor Regency. It is based on the last coordinates of the point at 14:33 before the plane lost contact with ATC Perdakusuma Halim Airport.

SAR Jakarta head Ketut Parwa explained, although the last point of the coordinate plane is known, but it could not confirm whether the aircraft berpenumpang 40 people went down in that position.

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