Susi Air

PT ASI Pudjiastuti Aviation, operating as Susi Air, is a scheduled and charter airline based in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia.

Susi Air is listed in category 2 by Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority for airline safety quality.

[2] Susi Air was established in late 2004 by Christian von Strombeck, who worked as Director of Operations, and his wife Susi Pudjiastuti,[3] it was originally set up to transport the fisheries cargo of sister company PT ASI Pudjiastuti, because land transportation to Jakarta took around 12 hours, too long to maintain the freshness of the company's marine produce as they make their way into restaurants and merchants.

The two new Cessna Grand Caravans that had just been ordered by Susi Air were very quickly pressed into service transporting equipment and medicine for aid agencies.

A fourth Grand Caravan was added to the fleet in early 2007 along with the addition of a new type, the Diamond Twin Star, for use on charter flights as well as opening up the possibility for Susi Air to train their own pilots.

In October, the Diamond Star aircraft suffered an engine failure and successfully made a forced landing near Bandung.

The company's fleet consists of the following aircraft:[citation needed] In October 2008, a Diamond DA-40 (registration PK-VVL) from Susi Air made an emergency landing on a firing range in the hilly Army Infantry Training Center compound, some 40 kilometers from the West Java provincial capital Bandung.

[14] Also on the same day, 9 September 2011, another Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (PK-BVQ) was mistakenly reported to have slid off the runway at Kupang's El Tari airport.

This incident resulted in the aircraft blocking the runway for 50 minutes causing two Boeing 737 commercial flights to divert to Makassar, South Sulawesi.

[18] On 25 April 2012 a PC 6 (PK VVQ) crashed in, Melak district, East Kalimantan killing the pilot and passenger who were engaged in an Aerial Survey of the area.

[19][20] In 2014, Iranian national Nader Haghighi was hired as a pilot by Susi Air, but was fired after it was discovered he was using a fraudulent passport.

Papuan separatists fighters abducted Philip Mark Mehrtens, and set alight to the Pilatus Porter aircraft that he had just landed in a regional airport in Paro, Nduga.