Serious Four SIA Flights To Zikapore Diverted To Batam Due To Bad Weather!

SINGAPORE - Four Singapore-bound flights were diverted to the Indonesian island of Batam on Thursday (Dec 21) due to inclement weather in the city state.

Among the four flights, a Singapore Airlines flight from Tokyo to Singapore touched down at Changi Airport more than five hours behind schedule after making four attempted landings on Thursday afternoon before diverting to Hang Nadim airport in Batam to refuel.

The SQ631 flight, which carried 259 passengers, landed in Batam at 2.49pm on Thursday and only left for Singapore at 7.25pm. The flight, which was scheduled to land at Changi Airport at 3.25pm, eventually arrived at 8.50pm.


The other three affected flights are a Tiger Air flight from Hong Kong with 104 passengers, a SIA flight from Brisbane with 289 passengers and a SilkAir flight from Thailand with 131 passengers. All of them arrived in Batam minutes before the SQ631 flight and departed in the evening for Singapore between 4.23pm and 5.46pm.

All passengers stayed on board at Hang Nadim airport while waiting out the bad weather in Changi, according to local authorities BP Batam.

A Changi Airport Group spokesman said decisions regarding flight diversions and landings are left to the sole discretion of the pilot and his airline.

This incident comes just a week after some 200 SIA passengers were stranded in Hokkaido for about 57 hours after heavy snow closed airport runways and caused hundreds of flight cancellations.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...ted-to-batam-due-to-poor-weather-in-singapore

terminal 5 should be built in batam as changi is proven not to be an all-weather airport.

And there are 69 reasons why passengers should be allowed to disembark when the plane diverts to Batam.

eatshitndie said:

terminal 5 should be built in batam as changi is proven not to be an all-weather airport.

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Alamakinky said:

And there are 69 reasons why passengers should be allowed to disembark when the plane diverts to Batam.

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one should be a beeline to the nearest massage joint and another to buy kueh lapi. happy endings can wait.

by right the airlines should compensate all the passengers with

either free massage for women and all men with free mamasan suck

alot of air crash investigation episodes happen in the sea around indonesia in the indian ocean and java sea.....im very scared whenever i take plane to australia and fly over indoland.

frenchbriefs said:

alot of air crash investigation episodes happen in the sea around indonesia in the indian ocean and java sea.....im very scared whenever i take plane to australia and fly over indoland.

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no worries. there's a huge buddhist temple in batam and many bomohs with coconuts in and around the archipelago.

SGP pilots no confidence to land aeroplane's nowadays?

Other airlines pilots can land their planes on time without problems?

You make lots of posts but many of them are without knowledge. Read the highlighted part of the excerpt of the report.

'''The other three affected flights are a Tiger Air flight from Hong Kong with 104 passengers, a SIA flight from Brisbane with 289 passengers and a SilkAir flight from Thailand with 131 passengers. All of them arrived in Batam minutes before the SQ631 flight and departed in the evening for Singapore between 4.23pm and 5.46pm'''

In bad weather conditions pilots can still land planes but sometimes even worse weather in the form of reduced visibility or winds/gusts beyond the plane's limits can occur. The pilot, in the interest of safety is not allowed to land under these circumstances. He needs to abort his approach or even abort the landing. He can then attempt another approach but the landing once again is not guaranteed.

Many pilots especially in Indonesia have attempted to land when beyond their or the plane's limits and the results have been fatal. No airlines needs cowboy pilots, they need safe pilots.

Please do not judge when you do not understand.



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WujiBo said:

SGP pilots no confidence to land aeroplane's nowadays?

Other airlines pilots can land their planes on time without problems?

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