The Indonesia government decided to temporarily stop the (grounded) the operation of all aircraft type MD-90 airlines belonging to Lion Air began Wednesday, 11 March 2009. This decision was taken related  slipped same type of aircraft owned by airlines in the Soekarno-Hatta Airport on Monday.

Dirjen Hubud  Herry Bakti authorized explain in details, the operation of the termination of this policy to facilitate the checks will be made against the plane of incidence is often experienced.

Be confirmed, the decision to re-grounded airplanes owned Lion Air, and evaluate the form of sanctions is not the incidents that make up closing one runway during the Soekarno-Hatta was almost 24 hours. Although he believes that the condition of the slip plane Lion is enough suitable aircraft to operate.

In a series of evaluation, according to him, Dephub will check all aircraft MD-90 series available. “Accidental, airlines use the MD series at this time only Lion. In the meantime, starting tomorrow (Wednesday) we will be grounded all the airplanes, “augment him.

Not only the physical plane assembly Mc Donell Douglass in 1996, the Dephub, go Herry, also will evaluate the safety systems and mechanisms of treatment made by management of the entire aircraft Lion Air .

“These include frequency of flights using the MD series aircraft we will also evaluate. Checks will take 3-4 days, “Herry row.

In addition to planes, Dephub also automatically will grouded-Capt. Haryanto Asmani numbered as pilot flight JT-793 starting from the Gorontalo, Makassar, is. According to Herry, not for the pilot to fly the plane  is valid for at least a month after the accident occurred.