Tempat duduk paling aman di pesawat

Dimanakah lokasi yang paling aman di dalam pesawat, seandainya terjadi kecelakaan fatal?

Tempat duduk paling aman

Apakah posisi tempat duduk meningkatkan peluang penumpang pesawat udara untuk selamat seandainya terjadi kejadian yang tidak diinginkan? Aviation Safety Network memuat daftar posisi tempat duduk penumpang yang selamat saat terjadi kecelakaan fatal. Data yang ditampilkan diperoleh dari laporan resmi hasil investigasi kecelakaan pesawat dari tahun 1959 sampai akhir 2011. Dalam kurun waktu 52 tahun tersebut, tercatat 262 kecelakaan pesawat komersial yang memiliki setidaknya satu penumpang yang selamat. Sayangnya, tidak semua laporan investigasi dari kecelakaan tersebut bisa diperoleh. Dari 157 laporan investigasi kecelakaan yang tersedia, sebagian besar menyatakan lokasi penumpang selamat tidak diketahui, tidak disebutkan dalam laporan ataupun tidak jelas. Hanya 51 laporan investigasi yang menyebutkan dengan jelas dimana lokasi penumpang yang selamat. Berikut daftarnya:

Three aircraft crashes in a week

It's unbelieveable that there were three crashes in less than a week.

On August 20, Spainair (aircraft type MD-82, with registration EC-HFP) flight number JK 5022, from Madrid to Las Palmas de Gran Canarias was involved in an incident at Madrid. There were 154 people reported dead on the accident that occurred during take off. It doesn't have to be a developing country to be involved in a jet crash, it can happen to every country.

The second crashes occurred on Sunday (August 24). A small plane, Cessna Caravan 208, crashed in a field crops in eastern Guatemala. It's reported 10 people were killed in this accident.  On the same day, in Kyrgyzstan, at least 71 passengers were reported dead. A Boeing 737 was headed to Iran and similar to Spainair, it crashed shortly after taking off near Bishkek's Manas International Airport.

Aviation safety investigation in Indonesia

This is my opinion, originally published in Suara Pembaruan Daily 14 March 2008, stating that aviation accident investigation in Indonesia has not yet been optimal.

Investigasi Kecelakaan Pesawat Udara Belum Optimal
Oleh I Made Ady Wirawan

Berita kecelakaan pesawat udara semakin sering "menghiasi" media massa. Indonesia termasuk salah satu negara yang beberapa tahun belakangan ini tidak lepas dari isu keselamatan transportasi udara, hingga Uni Eropa memberlakukan larangan terbang bagi pesawat-pesawat dari negara kita. 

Aviation Accident Investigations

...Should be for enhancing safety

In recent years, some issues related to aviation safety have highlighted the media. Aircraft crashes, skids, the banning from European Union, neglected investigations and also airline certificate revocation, seem to be familiar in our daily lives.  Yet, attempts to improve the aviation safety and to manage those problems have been far from comprehensive.

If flight crews are blamed such as for Yogyakarta crash, should they face criminal courts for being guilty of manslaughter? What should be done, after publishing that crews made mistakes in the Adam Air crash? It seems that the underlying problems have been found but in fact not. In these cases, the authorities have not acted completely.  It should be noted that the main focus of aviation safety investigations is to enhance flight safety and not to allocate blame.