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TNI chief's plane forced to fly back
Thu, 09/11/2008 10:59 AM | National
JAKARTA: An aircraft carrying Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Djoko Santoso was forced to return to Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma air base after 45 minutes of flight time on Wednesday.
The Hercules C-130 VIP took off from the air base at around 12:45 p.m. for Pontianak, West Kalimantan, but later experienced a communications cable failure, Antara news agency reported.
The TNI chief and his entourage, including other senior military officers and journalists, had to wait for a replacement aircraft at the airport.
The entourage later flew to Pontianak in a Foker-28 aircraft.
Gen. Djoko's visit was part of his Ramadan tour of several provinces in the country.
In Pontianak, he will hold a series of meetings with the West Kalimantan governor and local community leaders before providing donations to a local mosque and an Islamic boarding school. -- JP
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Mohammad Ali (not verified) — Thu, 09/11/2008 - 9:35pm
Even the TNI Chief can't fly on a decent plane without trouble. He had a first account on how bad the TNI equipment is, and he had luck in returning to Halim safe. How many TNI pilots are sent on duty in old planes, boats and tanks, some of them crashing and dying? How many more have to be sacrificed? The Singaporeans and Malaysians are laughing at this news. When is the Nation willing to pay the adequate price for the TNI respect among its counterparts in Southwest Asia?