Wednesday, July 18, 2007

NURI oh NURI....


Pesawat Nuri sekali lagi mengalami masaalah dan telah mengorbankan 6 nyawa.Innalillahi wa inna ilahi roji'un. Kita faham ajal tidak akan lari walau sesaatpun dari yang telah ditentukan.
Cuma kita ralat kerana pesawat Nuri sering mengalami kemalangan(begitu juga peasawat jet lathan TUDM yg sering terhempas di Kedah atau Pahang).
Tentu ada sesuatu yang tidak kena di sini. Tapi apa ya? Mungkin pesawat2 yang kita ada sudah terlalu tua dan sepatutnya di jual sebagai besi buruk?
Di sini saya buat copy dan paste beberapa artikel NST dan Bernama dan sebuah discussion group tentang Nuri.

Semoga selepas ini kita akan jarang mendengar tragedi sebegini.

Reference the RMAF Nuri helicopter which went missing with 6 crew members on board.

It is to be noted that the Nuri helicopter, the workhorse of the RMAF, entered service 39 years ago(1968).

It does not have an emergency locator transmitter which would allow rescuers to locate it.


How can one have a decent maintenance program and ready availability of spares for helicopters that are almost 40 years old?

Why should the govt be spending a few billion ringgit to buy a squadron of Sukhoi SU-30MKM fighter jets from Russia when they are not paying attention to the basics - like getting modern helicopters for the armed forces?

Surely, our fighting men and women in uniform deserve better?


In fact, it is distressing to note that, unlike other aircraft in the RMAF fleet, the ill-fated Nuri helicopter is not equipped with an emergency locator transmitter which is designed to send off a distress signal when an aircraft crashes. Instead, Nuri helicopters have to make do with the manual, hand-held search-and-rescue beacon. It is true that all that the survivors of the Nuri crash in Ba’kelalan, Sarawak, three years ago needed were a flare gun and a smoke grenade to attract the attention of a hovering helicopter.

Questions must also be raised over the fact that neither the cockpit voice recorder nor the flight data recorder are deemed essential equipment in the Nuri. Since their installation would have been a help to investigators in determining what happened, an opportunity to improve helicopter safety appears to have been lost.

Apa Menteri Pertahanan Najib kata tentang helikopter NURI. Jadi selamat kah anggota keselamatan kita?

Kita amat berharap sesuatu yang positif yang memikirkan keselamatan anggota keselamatan kita boleh dilakukan.Janganlah( diharapkan) keputusan nak membeli atau tidak membeli peralatan tentera(atau apa2 saja) bergantung kepada siapa boleh dapat habuan komisyen yang tinggi.

Kepada keluarga mangsa pesawat Nuri yang terkorban, kita berharap mereka akan bersabar menghadapi ujian yang berat ini. Doa kita kepada arwah-arwah, semoga roh mereka di Rahmati ALLAH SWT.

Kandungan posting mungkin ada kena mengena atau tidak dengan makhluk yang hidup atau yang telah tiada.Kalau sapa-sapa terasa nak buat macamana kan. Sapa makan cabai melaka dia pedaih laa

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

TA,

I really wonder sometimes, what the government is doing. Clearly, their priorities are mixed up.

Loss of young lives like theirs is not something we call service to the nation, it's negligence & faulty machinery.

Dah lah, malas nak membebel pagi2 nih. Good day TA

de_kerinchi said...

Salam Dr. Tokasid

Helikopter tu memang dah lama, cuba lah kira dari zaman bila di beli, kalau kita mampu tukar jet pejuang (atau jet peribadi)bermakna kita mampu juga dapatkan helikopter...

Benda ni memang dah lama jadi isu, tapi alasan untuk meneruskan perkhidmatan nya masih lagi "Helikopter ini masih boleh digunakan..."

p/s: tunggu sahaja apa kenyataan yang akan diberi hasil postmoterm nanti...(salah satu prosedur standard lepas berlaku tragedi, habis kuat pun gantung sementara dan guna kembali..)

tokasid said...

Elviza and de_kerinchi:

I think most of us had expected what kind of answers/statements they will issue during the postmortem.

Najib's statement on NURI will be their guideline.

Its a sad sad situation.

ZABS said...

Salam Tokasid,
Kapal selam dan sukhoy tu entah guna ke tidak untuk perang, dibeli ratusan juta. Nuri yang selalu guna untuk macam2 tugas termasuk menyelamat, medivac dan lain2 yang penting, dah boleh masuk muzium pun tak tukar lagi. Nak tunggu semua jatuh ke baru nak ganti tu?

Fauziah Ismail said...

Salam Tokasid
Besides reviewing the use of the Sikorsky/Nuri, I think the authorities should re-look at how we undertake the search and rescue operations.
The SAR team found the wreckage five days after the crash. From 400 people on the first day, the team grew to 1,000 on Tuesday. More helicopters were mobilised, including a Sea Hawk from the US Navy.
I would have thought we should put more people to canvas the area as soon as it had happened.
Chances are we could have gotten to the victims earlier, giving their parents and loved ones the peace of mind.
Also, irrespective of the cost, all military aircraft should be fixed with emergency locator transmitters, not only those ferrying VVIPs and other new fighters and jets.
I have yet to take military transport on assignment. Given a choice, I rather take the truck instead of a Nuri.
Al-Fatihah for our brave young men and women who had perished in the crash: Kapten Nor Azlan Termuzi, Kapten Nor Intan Asykeen Mohd Arof, Sarjan Udara Khusnizam Ariffin, Sarjan Udara Mohd Azmie Md Yassin, Laskar Udara Kana Saifulnizam Alias ddn Laskar Muda Muhammad Ridzuan Ahmad.

tokasid said...

Pak zabs:

You should know better how and why our defence's transportations is in a sad state. I'm sure banyak juga barang lupus kat TLDM.

Kereta kebal yg mengumpul pasir di desert kat Amerika tu ntah apa khabar agaknya. Mungkin dah boleh buat 'lau ayam' kata kawan saya.

tokasid said...

Fauziah:

I'm sure in your line of work one day you might have to take the Nuri. Lets hope it doesnt happen. Elok naik truck saja macam you kata tu.

Masaalahnya ,bila terjadi musibah begini baru orang berkuasa nak buat siasatan rapi, nak buat kertas putih etc,etc.

Defense is a major agenda in any country and that should be the upmost priority. Negara maju kesemuanya membuat peruntukan yg besar kepada defense mereka. Tak apa kalau tak ada state-of-the-art pesawat atau weapons tapi biarlah yang elok performance dan masih selamat.

Nuri denagn Hawk ni dah terlalu famous berita kemalangan mereka. Kalau tak silap dulu-dulu DSAI sepatutnya kena naik NURI yang tiba-tiba ada masaalah. Ini sebelum DSAI di lempar dari tampuk kepimpinan negara.

Tapi perkara begini apa yg rakyat boleh buat? Atau beranikah rakyat mengubah pucuk kepimpinan?

Anonymous said...

Salam all,
innalillah ...seperti dah di duga, bila Nuri hilang dari pandangan apa lagi yang boleh kita harapkan...agree dengan Fauziah tindakan kita dalam menangani kecemasan terlalu mengecewakan.
kesian dan gayat bila melihatkan anak anak muda kita yang bersemangat juang tinggi tapi terpaksa terbang dan terbunuh dengan cara menyayat hati.
...ahaha..buat 'lau ayam'? nak jugak

tokasid said...

Mama drzeze:

Apa yg Fauziah kata tu memang satu kenyataan pahit yang terpaksa kita hadapi.Saya yakin kita mempunyai pasukan SAR yg cekap membuat tugasan cuma yang leceh bila 'seolah-olah' perancangannya macam tak se-smooth yang kita jangkakan.
Yang paling saya ralat ialah dalam zaman yg serba canggih dan serba-serbi IT ini, mengapa tidak di pasang deacon atau alat GPS di pesawat2 'kuno' seperti Nuri dan Hawk.Apatah lagi dua bangsa pesawat ni sering terhempas,sering hilang dari radar,sering terjun hutan,sering terjun dalam sawah bendang dan sering mandi ke dalam Laut China Selatan.

Saya selama ni dok sangkakan sebab pemimpin semua nak kita IT itu IT ini mesti pesawat2 dah di pasangkan alat mengesan GPS.

Mungkin kalau nak jimat boleh beli handphone dan sim kad DIGI yg luas coveragenya hingga ke hutan belantara dan pergunungan( kalau ikut iklan DIGI lah) dan boh di setiap Nuri dan Hawk yg akan melakukan penerbangan. Kalau mahal sangat nak pasang alat mengesan GPS lah...

Fauziah Ismail said...

Salam Tokasid
Lanjutan dari earlier comment …
DPM said Nuri be scrapped and replaced with newer helicopters. I am not going to question how or what made the government decide this or who is going to benefit from the international bids to supply these iron birds but alhamdulillah, somebody in the Cabinet is doing his job albeit a little late but better late than never, as the saying goes.
Bukan calang-calang orang yang boleh bawa helicopter because their training is far more extensive that pilots of commercial airliners. Like a commercial helicopter pilot friend of mine said once, “In emergencies, there is no way to go but down. If you survive, you’ll live to tell the story. If not, your story will be told by your family and loved ones.”

tokasid said...

Fauziah:

TQ for the update.Alhamdulillah, finally the top people had some sense about the safety of Nuri.
I do not know how long this will take but do hope they will not withold it or call it off.

Manusia Pekasam said...

Salam tokasid,

Najib tunggu Rosmah naik Nuri jatuh terhempas kot, baghu dia nak tukaq baghu punya.

Bila nak tukaq, nak kena libat model negara mana plak nak beli Heli baghu? Nak pakai nasihat sapa? Razak Baginda dalam jel? Hahahaha!

tokasid said...

Maknesia pekasam:

kalu rosmah teghempaih bukan Najib tikaq helikopter baru...tukaq bini baru laa syeh!

RB tak dak tarak pa-pa. Ramai yg dok tunggu nak jadi jururunding tu. Kalu hang tera kona hang pun boleh apply apa? Aku nak kelentong tak beropa tera.kalu dak haruih aku ganti si baginda tu.

Unknown said...

Cerita ni aku dengaq dari orang kerja air-force sendiri about 8 years dulu. Dia dan beberapa orang kena naik NURI untuk pi mana entah. Lepaih 5 minit naik, heli terpaksa patah balik sebab engine trouble. Bila turun, depa pi salvage parts dari NURI lain yang dok parking situ pasai spare part takdak.
Persoalannya, awat orang ataih tak tau ka? Aku rasa depa tau dan depa pun sayang kat anggota depa tapi bila mintak kat lagi ataih, tak dapat macam mana. Sementara tu kita kira lah berapa lagi nak jatuh dan berapa lagi nak terkorban.