Indonesian transport ministry on Wednesday grounded all planes of budget airline Adam Air for incompliance of safety standard, spokesman of the ministry BambangErfan said here.
The ministry gave an opportunity of three months for the airline to make improvement on safety standard or to be suspended, the spokesman said.
"We ground all its plane first, starting from 00:00 Jakarta time. Should in three months there is no progress on its safety standard, we will suspend the airline or revoke its AOC (air operator certificate)," he told Xinhua.
The spokesman said that investigators have found that the lack of safety standard had caused a series of accidents suffered by Adam Air planes that killed more than one hundred people in the last two years.
Two weeks ago one of the carrier plane skidded off runway injuring five people. Last year its plane with 102 people on board plunged into the waters of central Indonesia on New Year's Day. And several weeks later, the fuselage of another plane of the carrier was torn in half after a hard landing.
"The airline has not fully complied with the elements of safety. Should this continue, it will be very dangers," he said.
The low-cost Adam Air also suffered from financial problem as two largest shareholders Global Transport Services Inc., (GTS) and Bright Star Perkasa Inc., (BSP), which together control about 50 percent stake in the airline, plan to pull out of the beleaguered company, Director of the Air Transportation of the Ministry Budhi Muliawan Suyitno has said.
The reoccurrence of accidents led the European Union to impose air travel ban on 51 airliners in Indonesia on July 6 last year, including Adam Air, and extended the ban on November 28 after revoking its ban on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and on Blue Wing Airlines of Surinam.
The aviation authorities from Indonesia and EU have agreed to cooperate for accomplishment of the flight safety standard in Indonesia after the group authorities said in January that a lot of to be done by Indonesia to fully meet with the air safety standard.
Source:Xinhua
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