Questions about Adam Air’s Safety Record
There’s an interesting post at a forum called ‘Professional Pilots Rumor Network‘ where a commercial pilot expresses concerns about Adam Air’s concern for safety. The post is from August 2006 and cites contact with pilots flying for Adam Air at the time.
The plane that has recently disappeared has been confirmed as PK-KKW, which the pilot says had a abnormally functioning engine placed in it from another aircraft, only to fail at a later stage.
On the 19th, PK-KKC went in for a C-Check, despite having an abnormally high-EGT problem resulting in the crew flying under reduced N1, the engine didn’t go in for repairs at this opportunity. Instead, it was moved into PK-KKW, and continued to fly under N1 reduction until yesterday or two days ago when the engine gave up completely. The engine was repaired quickly at a cost of US$300,000. The humourous thing was, the aircraft today was put intensively to cater for Adam Air’s 14 extra flights to Bali today, and one of the owners was quoted complaining today that “all those extra flights still can’t cover that engine repair costs!”
And a depressingly accurate finish to the post.
…until one of Adam Air’s jets become a smoking hole in the ground, there will be no change.