Lesson Learnt from QZ8501: Maritime Perspective
After several weeks, search and rescue operations had been finally able to locate and evacuate the ill-fated AirAsia QZ8501. The wreckage of the plane was found in the Karimata Strait off the coast of Borneo. Out of the 162 on board, only 48 of the passengers on the flight taking off from Juanda Airport in Surabaya, East Java, to Changi in Singapore have been found. Like other plane crashes happened aroud the world, QZ8501 has also ended up at sea. In Indonesia alone, a number of airplane accidents with such characteric had taken place, i.e. Adam Air KI 574 that plunged into water off the Makassar Strait in 2007 and Lion Air JT904 which fiercely landed at sea near Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali in 2013. Nothing so special with the fact that many aircraft finalize their troubled flights tragically at sea since the earth, as well as Indonesia, the world’s biggest archipelago country, is two-third covered by water. But, something is clear from the condit...