Military: Broken Tire Short After Landing
by Indonesia military helicopter fell down. The commander in chief was fired.
Hawk-100 belong to Indonesian Air Force broke it’s back tire short after landing at Sultan Syarif Kasim II airport, Pekanbaru. Both crew were safe. The military airbase is next to the Pekanbaru commercial airport. The chief in command said that they succeed repairing the broken tire in half hour. So it didn’t disturbance the runway for commercial use. The incident is still in investigation since the last report. Hawk-100 is built by British Aerospace company and purchased at 1997.
The fighter jet made a routine flight exercise which took off at 10:23 AM and landing 11:06 AM local time. Rumours said that the parachute brake system was unable to deploy but the airbase chief of command, Col. Dodi Trisunu denied the report.
About 4 incident in the last 2 years here at Pekanbaru military airbase. At 21 November 2006, Hawk-209 crash short after landing. The pilot Major Muhammad Dadang survive from the crash. October, 30th 2007, the same type slipped during take off phase. The pilot captain HM. Kisha safe from the accident after 15 minutes evacuation conduct by the member of Pekanbaru army. Last, January, 7th 2008, Twinpack helicopter belonged to military fell at Lubukagung, Pelalawan, Riau. In the last incident, Robert V. Chandran, Singapore Conglomerate killed and others 9 injured.
This last incident caused Pekanbaru airbase commander in chief, Col. Gandhara Olivenca fired. There is still unclear motive about allowing civil on the military choppers.
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