Chronology of Batik Air Pilot and Co-pilot Falling Asleep for 28 Minutes While Flying to Jakarta

Kronologi Pilot dan Copilot Batik Air Tertidur 28 Menit Saat Terbang ke Jakarta

Chronology of Batik Air Pilot and Copilot Falling Asleep for 28 Minutes While Flying to Jakarta.

Dream - The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) is currently investigating the pilot and co-pilot of Batik Air who fell asleep simultaneously while flying the plane to Jakarta. According to FlightGlobal, KNKT classifies this incident, which occurred on January 25, 2024, as a serious mistake that resulted in a series of navigation errors.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) revealed that they are currently examining the 32-year-old pilot and the 28-year-old co-pilot. Both of them were operating the Airbus A320 aircraft with flight number ID6723 from Kendari to Jakarta. According to the schedule of Batik Air Indonesia, this flight should have taken 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Chronology of Batik Air Pilot and Co-pilot Falling Asleep for 28 Minutes While Flying to Jakarta

The translated text while preserving the HTML tags is: "The chronology of events is when the aircraft reaches cruising altitude at around 08:37 local time. Both Batik Air crew members remove their headsets and the pilot asks the copilot if he can sleep. The copilot allows it."

Copilot takes control and flies for the next 40 minutes before his colleague wakes up and asks if the copilot wants to take a rest. However, the copilot refuses the offer and continues his duty. At around 08.43 AM local time, the copilot who is still flying the aircraft makes initial contact with Jakarta air traffic control and receives instructions to proceed to waypoint KURUS located northeast of the airport. At that time, the Airbus A320 aircraft is flying with a heading of 250° and is located east of the waypoint.

"Sleeping Copilot"

Around 1 minute after contacting Jakarta, the copilot accidentally fell asleep. Jakarta's regional control center asked Batik Air's crew how long the A320 needed to fly on the current route, but received no response. Several attempts to contact the aircraft were made, including asking another pilot to call the Batik Air crew. KNKT stated that around 28 minutes after the copilot fell asleep, the pilot finally woke up and realized that the plane was not on the correct route.

"He woke up his colleague and responded to the call from the Jakarta control center, stating that they were experiencing radio communication problems as the reason for their lack of response."

Lack of Sleep

The following 'Bahasa' text translated to 'English' while preserving any html tags: "The Batik Air plane finally landed safely in Jakarta. There was no damage to the plane or injuries to the passengers. After investigation, KNKT investigators did not find any problems with the aircraft's communication system. "Before the flight, there were no records or reports of aircraft system damage. After the incident, the aircraft's radio communication system was found to be in normal condition," said the investigator, as reported by liputan6.com, Saturday, March 9, 2024."

According to KNKT, the pilot and copilot had operated the Jakarta-Kendari flight on the same morning. The flight was scheduled to depart at 02:55 local time, and the flight crew had to log in at 01:25. KNKT found that the copilot told the pilot that he did not get enough rest the previous night. The copilot is a new parent, with a pair of one-month-old twins.

"Although on the night before he was scheduled to fly to Kendari, he tried to sleep early, but he had to wake up several times to help his wife take care of their baby and felt that the quality of his sleep decreased."

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