{"id":18375,"date":"2016-12-31T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18375"},"modified":"2016-12-31T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T08:20:03","slug":"indonesia-warns-airline-videos-appear-show-intoxicated-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/indonesia-warns-airline-videos-appear-show-intoxicated-pilot.html","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia warns airline after videos appear to show intoxicated pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indonesia warns airline after videos appear to show intoxicated pilot<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Indonesia warns airline after videos appear to show intoxicated pilot:-<\/strong> Indonesian authorities have issued a warning to airline PT Citilink Indonesia after videos circulated appearing to show an intoxicated pilot from the low-cost carrier going through security and then sounding incoherent on the aircraft’s public address system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Citilink, which is a unit of national carrier PT Garuda Indonesia, said that the company had fired the pilot after a Dec 28 incident at Surabaya airport ahead of a flight to Jakarta and that two executives had offered to resign.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pilot was replaced before the flight proceeded, according to a company statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fary Djemi Francis, who heads a parliamentary commission overseeing transportation, said that the airline had been asked to investigate whether the pilot had been on drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Second, we also ask Citilink’s management to sanction the pilot who went on board the aircraft without going through the briefing room, missing checks on his fitness to fly,” Francis said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The transportation ministry had sent a warning letter to Citilink and called for an internal investigation after finding that health checks and other procedures had not been followed according to regulations, said ministry spokesman Bambang S Ervan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Citilink did not name the pilot but said in a statement that it had fired him after he had “ignored the flight safety and security procedures which could potentially endanger the security and safety of passengers and other crew members.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Chief Executive Albert Burhan and operations director, Hadinoto Soedigno, had also offered to resign over the incident, Citilink spokesman Benny Butarbutar said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The spokesman said the resignations would require the approval of shareholders.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We would never mess around when it concerns the condition of a flight, let alone experiment with passenger safety,” Butarbutar said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The widely circulated videos have caused alarm in Indonesia, which has had a patchy air safety record.<\/span><\/p>\n

One appears to be CCTV footage of an unsteady pilot going through security, and the other appears to be shot on a phone and shows a pilot remonstrating in slurred speech with other staff members in the plane’s cockpit that he was able to fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuters could not authenticate the videos and Ctilink did not comment directly on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indonesia has been trying to improve safety in its airline sector after a series of accidents. For a while, some carriers were barred from flying to the European Union and some other markets over safety concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Citilink operates 34 aircraft, conducting 184 flights daily, the company’s website said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-indonesia-airlines-idUSKBN14K05Y?il=0<\/span><\/div>\n

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