GIA152, Airbus A300

Did chores today: booked flight back to Indo, paid it, got membership refunded, got my shoes from Em and even gave her Messiah ticket. I gotta give David's messiah ticket to her though, tomorrow perhaps.

Been watching Death Note, it's good! I really like L, I saw the footage at the beginning of the video, woah, he looked totally different from L. Must be a really good actor.

Another thing I have been looking, it's my mum's air crash transcript. Here's some infos:

26 September 1997 - Garuda 152

Flight GA152 (Jakarta-Medan) was cleared for an ILS approach to Medan runway 05 and was flying on a 316deg heading on Airway 585/W12. Having descended to 3000ft the crew were instructed to turn left heading 240deg for vectoring to intercept the runway 05 ILS. At 13.28 the flight was instructed to continue on a 215deg heading and descend to 2000ft. At 13.30h ATC directed the flight to turn right heading 046 and report when establishing the localizer. Confusion the part of the air traffic controller followed over whether GA152 was turning left or right. Just 10 seconds after confirming the right turn, the Airbus crashed in a wooded area, broke up and burst into flames. The wreckage covered a 150x75m area near the village of Pancur Batu, which is located at 900-1000m amsl. The accident happened 30kms short of Medan Airport. The region was affected by smog from forest fires; visibility was reported to be 600-800m.


Legenda:
MNA241 = Merpati Flight 241 (approaching);
BOU683 = Bouraq Flight 683 (departing);
GIA152 = Garuda Flight 152 (approaching)

GIA 152: Medan Approach, GIA152 passing 150.
MEDAN: GIA 152 radar contact 43 miles. Descent to 3000ft for Runway 05, reduce speed to 220.
GIA 152: Descend 3000for Runway 05. Reduce speed to 220 kts., GIA 152.
GIA 152: Approach, GIA 152, request reason to reduce speed above 10000 to 220kts.
MEDAN: OK Sir, your traffic departure sir, now start engine, release traffic departure at or before 27.
GIA 152: 152 like to maintain 210 kts... 250kts, and below 10000.
MEDAN: OK, it's approved.
MNA 241: MNA 241 passing 10000.
MEDAN: MNA 241, your position now 11 miles on W-11. Contact 1212. Happy landing.
MNA 241: Selamat siang. Terima kasih. (Good afternoon. Thank you)
MEDAN: Any time.
GIA 152: GIA 152; 3000
MEDAN: GIA 152, maintain 3000ft for a while. Maintain heading Medan VOR. Traffic now still taxi Runway 23.
GIA 152: Maintain 3000.
MEDAN: Merpati 152, you turn left heading 240 vectoring for intercept ILS Runway 05 from right side. Traffic now rolling.
MEDAN: GIA 152 do you read?
GIA 152: GIA 152, say again?
MEDAN: Turn left heading a ...... 240, 235. Now vectoring for intercept ILS Runway 05.
GIA 152: Roger, heading 235. GIA 152.
GIA 152: GIA 152 heading 235. Confirm we cleared from a ..... mountainous area?
MEDAN: Affirm sir! Continue turn left on heading 215.
GIA 152: On heading 215, GIA.
BOU 683: Good afternoon, approach. BOU 683 departed left turn
MEDAN: BOU 683 continue turn left on heading 120 initial 2000ft.
-- line missing in transcript ---
MEDAN: GIA 152, turn right heading 046, report established on localizer.
GIA 152: Turn right heading 040, GIA 152, check established.
MEDAN: Turning right sir.
GIA 152: Roger, 152.
MEDAN: 152, confirm you're making turning left now?
GIA 152: We are turning right now.
MEDAN: 152 OK, you continue turning left now.
GIA 152: A ...... confirm turning left? We are starting turning right now.
MEDAN: OK ...... OK.
MEDAN: GIA 152 continue turn right heading 015.
GIA 152: Aaaaaa. Allahu-Akbar.

As you can see, the tower said a wrong thing to GA152.

MEDAN: Merpati 152, you turn left heading 240 vectoring for intercept ILS Runway 05 from right side. Traffic now rolling.
MEDAN: GIA 152 do you read?
GIA 152: GIA 152, say again?
MEDAN: Turn left heading a ...... 240, 235. Now vectoring for intercept ILS Runway 05.

It was for Merpati, but then asking for the confirmation, instead of asking Merpati, they asked Garuda.

MEDAN: GIA 152, turn right heading 046, report established on localizer.
GIA 152: Turn right heading 040, GIA 152, check established.
MEDAN: Turning right sir.
GIA 152: Roger, 152.

Don't know what's happening here, but they were asked to turn "right" now.

MEDAN: 152, confirm you're making turning left now?
GIA 152: We are turning right now.
MEDAN: 152 OK, you continue turning left now.
GIA 152: A ...... confirm turning left? We are starting turning right now.

And then they were asked to turn left, right after that. GIA152 responded saying, "we are turning right now." I am pretty sure, due to poor English, it was misunderstood. You see how it could mean, we are turning "right," now. Or it could mean, we are turning "right now."

Oh well, I don't 100% understand what was happening but yeah that's what I saw.

According to www.planecrashinfo.com, that air crash is one of the worst 100 crash in the world up to today, ranking 18th worst. Not a really good thing to be in a high rank for. The worst was the 9/11 incident.

Airbus A300

That's the plane model. Don't you think it looks sooooo old! Man, 10 years ago is a long long time ago!

Today

What an eventless day today is. I feel like I have done nothing but sleep, online and eat today. Oh well.

Woke up pretty early today (because Cindy knocked on my door, asking for her umbrella from me, which I borrowed the day before). And then I finished Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Was a great movie, I think Michelle Yeoh is really cool. Especially the fight between her and Zhang Ziyi.

Anyway after that I went to buy my lunch and watched Pursuit of Happyness. Ended up crying like a baby. It was such a moving movie. I recommend that movie to anyone.

Anyway, after that I felt too tired and so I just slept, it was around 3pm when I slept and 8pm when I woke up. Ugh, that was bad. I woke up thinking it was already so late (morning), but 8pm is late enough!

Went to buy food and groceries at Coles, and I'm going to sleep now.

Nothing at all to think today. Today is the most unproductive day indeed (though, I did practice the piano a bit).

ST

Music theory exam yesterday... ugh, I lost like 4 marks coz of a silly mistake! Italian 6th, and I wrote Neapolitan 6th. Doesn't matter.

Anyway, aside from the fact that I bought 3 DVDs and I bought a book, today was a pretty uneventful day. Boring indeed. Morning was spent playing the fightclub stuff on facebook and chatted away with my mates.

I don't even know what to do tomorrow, besides the 10 hour piano practice of course *cough cough*.

Oh yeah, Powerhouse yesterday was awesome too, Carl Lenz brought the word. He is from the US. Said something about how to keep being passionate. And touched the topic "Your Mama".

I'm currently composing a Requiem, I guess I'm on to that "morbid" mood again. But honestly, I enjoy being morbid! It's lovely. Not only that, it feels good being melancholic. I enjoy being sad too. There is this strong fire that burns in my heart when I feel so, and it feels somewhat "pleasurable". lol, whatever. First part done, Requiem Aeternam.

Alright, will cya on the next post then. I'm going to watch my movie!

Monday's Exams

Today, had two three-hour exams! On top of that a three hour rehearsal on Messiah.

Anyway, exams feedback first. It was great! They were pretty easy, as in I could write most and I could answer most problems. Pretty great! Indeed! Because I honestly did not do much revising.

Messiah! Great, we did the whole thing again, but in slightly better detail. It was fun.

And now here I am, updating at 2:16AM! Aiyo!!!!! Gotta sleep.

Movie Watched: Sunshine
Movie Watching: Elizabeth
Movie to be Watched: Elizabeth, the wateva age.