The plane falls when it is used to grow Palm Gardens – VIVA

VIVA – The chief of public relations of the West Kalimantan Regional Police, Nanang Purnomo, confirmed the existence of a plane crash in the regency of Ketapang.

He explained that the only accident of the THRAS PK-ELB type aircraft owned by PT Elang Nusantara Air occurred while it was being used for fertilization in oil planting. palm belonging to PT Sinarmas group in block G, H 47.

"On Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 11 am, the Jalan Kebun Menrut G WIB, H47 Cendana estate, Carik hamlet, Belaban village, Marau sub-district, Ketapang regency, caused an aircraft accident. THRAS PK-ELB, owned by PT Elang Nusantara Air, working for the transport and spreading of fertilizer in the oil palm plantation belonging to the PT Kencana Graha Permai Cendana field, "said Commissioner Nanang Purnomo .

According to Nanang, the pilot of the THRAS PK-ELB aircraft was Mr. Martin Derren Scott, from Australia. The man was born on October 25, 1968. "The pilot was fine.The state of the plane was broken by a broken wing, a broken wheel and no explosion," said Commissioner Nanang Purnomo.

Nanang then explained the chronology of the incident. He said that on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 7 am, the plane was carrying and as usual fertilizing the oil palm plantations belonging to the PT Kencana Graha Permai Cendana. The Cendana Estate Foundation transports and sows fertilizer in the Sandalwood Estate estate.

At about 11 am, WIB, Cendana's estate manager, Imam, was informed that the plane had had an accident and an emergency landing on G Jalan Kebun Blok, H 47 Cendana Estate, Carik Hamlet, Belaban Village , Marau District, Ketapang District. The company immediately went to the crime scene and immediately closed the road. The plane was also closed with a tarpaulin so that nothing happens.

"The eyewitness on the scene called Jumadi (40), the work of the tractor driver Cendana Estate." At 11:00 am WIB, the plane was flying at low altitude. The pilot then saw the pilot get out of the plane, said the pilot in a foreign language that the eyewitnesses did not understand, as if the pilot had asked call the Cendana Estate airport team.The pilot waited on the plane until he waited for the airport team. come on the scene, "said Fr. Pol. Nanang Purnomo.

The property manager of Cendana, Imam, did not know it yet because the plane had an accident and landed suddenly. "The company has informed the NTSC of the incident and it will visit the site tomorrow, Sunday, November 4, 2018," said Commissioner Nanang Purnomo.