The National Team for Transportation Safety and Security was set up a few days after the disappearance of

Adam Air Adam Air (incorporated as PT. Adam SkyConnection Airlines) was a privately owned airline based in West Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It operated scheduled domestic services to over 20 cities and international services to Penang and Singapore. Its ...

Flight 574 Adam Air Flight 574 (KI574 or DHI574) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya and Manado that crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007. All 1 ...

on 1 January 2007, by

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, partially as a response to the high number of recent transportational accidents in Indonesia, and also as a direct response to the loss of the aircraft, along with other civil aviation accidents within Indonesia.President forms national team to evaluate transportation safety, security
- ANTARA News - Obtained 20 January 2007 The team is tasked to evaluate thoroughly the transport safety procedures and review the existing regulations on transportation in

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. It does not, however, investigate accidents; the entity responsible for this is the

National Transportation Safety Committee The National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC, id, Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi, KNKT; literally "Transportation Safety National Committee") is an Indonesian government agency charged with the investigation of air, land, rail, ...

(Indonesian:''Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi''), which operates under the direct auspicies of the Transportation Ministry.Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT) official site
- Obtained 20 January 2007.

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