It operated scheduled domestic services, as well as charters and aerial work. [12] The altitude of the plane was shown as 35,000 feet (10,670 m) on the radar screen. of poor maintenance, and of ordering pilots to fly in all weather and regardless of aircraft conditions. All 12 passengers and 3 crew members were killed in the accident.

All text created after September 25, 2005 available under the terms of the, Pilot error partly to blame for deadly Adam Air crash: report, System failure blamed for crash of budget airline in Indonesia, https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Final_report_blames_instrument_failure_for_Adam_Air_Flight_574_disaster&oldid=4024709. All the accidents involved Boeing 737s. [13] The altitude of the plane was shown as 35,000 feet (10,670 m) on the radar screen. [5], The aircraft involved, Boeing 737-4Q8 serial number 24070, registration PK-KKW, was manufactured in 1989. Despite the bank angle reaching 100° with almost 60° nose down attitude, the pilots did not level the wings before trying to regain pitch control.

[61] On 15 January, an unidentified fuel spill was spotted by the Singaporean reconnaissance aircraft along the western coast of Sulawesi,[37] but by the time a ship arrived to attempt to determine whether the spill came from the aircraft it had been moved by strong currents.

Mimika Air Flight 514 was a chartered passenger flight operated by Mimika Air with a Pilatus PC-6 Porter from Ilaga, Papua to Mulia, a town nearby. On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which operated the flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people aboard. The report found that the 737, registered PK-KKW, suffered a Inertial Reference System (IRS) failure.

Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla went as far as to question the need to retrieve the black boxes at all, although experts said in response that the accident was of international significance as it could indicate a fault with the aircraft. [90] A few days after the disappearance, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono set up the National Team for Transportation Safety and Security, partially as a response to the high number of recent transportation accidents in Indonesia, and partially as a direct response to the event. [75][76], A Phoenix International underwater robot scouring the sea off Majene for on Sulawesi finally retrieved the Flight Data Recorder on 27 August and Cockpit Voice Recorder on 28 August. [55] By 13 January, a piece of a wing was also recovered. As they were correcting the problem, they accidentally disengaged the autopilot and failed to correct for a slow right roll even after a "bank angle" alarm sounded. [17] Although the Juanda Airport operator, PT Angkasa Pura I, had given warnings to the pilot concerning the weather condition, the plane had departed as scheduled. The aircraft experienced an in flight breakup prior to impact, at which time the investigators concluded the aircraft was in a "critically unrecoverable state".[5].