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Jessica Watson, 16, expects to spend around 230 days alone at sea on her around-the-world voyage. Photo courtesy of www.youngestround.com. Sydney. An Australian teenager on Tuesday kicked off preparations for her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. Jessica Watson, 16, left the northeastern Sunshine Coast region on a 10-day test run to Sydney ahead of her bid to sail around the world by April 2010. After the test run, Watson, who has been sailing since she was eight years old, will make final preparations before setting off for the Tasman Sea in her pink 10.4-meter sloop when the weather is favorable. “I plan on taking around 10 days to sail down to Sydney so that I get plenty of time on the water to test all the systems and give Ella’s Pink Lady a good run-in,” Watson wrote on her online trip log. She will attempt to break the record set in 1999 by fellow Australian Jesse Martin, who took 327 days, 12 hours and 52 minutes to sail ar...

Sudah beberapa kali TNI AL kehilangan pesawat jenis NOMAD, pesawat ini adalah buatan Australia, yang sudah tidak diproduksi lagi Seperti dikutip dari situs Departemen Pertahanan RI, pada Mei 1987 Nomad jenis N22 P-817 jatuh di perairan Pulau Mapur, Kepualauan Riau. Setahun kemudian pesawat Nomad juga jatuh di perairan China Selatan. Pada Desember 2007 Nomad kembali jatuh. Saat itu pesawat jenis P837 jatuh di Batu Daun, Kelurahan Ujung Kareung, Sabang, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam. Insiden itu menewaskan setidaknya tiga orang. Kini giliran pesawat Nomad P 837 milik TNI Angkatan Laut, yang hilang kontak sekitar pukul 13.00 WIB, ternyata jatuh Desa Sekatak, wilayah Bulungan dan lima penumpang dilaporkan tewas. Pesawat tersebut dalam perjalanan dari Long Bawan di Kabupaten Nunukan ke Bandar Udara Juwata di Kota Tarakan, Kalimantan Timur, Senin siang(7/9/2009). FOTO ANTARA/M Imron Rosyadi/Koz/mes/09. Pesawat Nomad P 837 dikenal sebagai pesawat pengintai. Pesawat ini kerap digunakan untuk mela...

JAKARTA (AP) — A small Indonesian military plane disappeared over Borneo on Monday with nine passengers and crew aboard, a navy spokesman said. The Nomad P837 light aircraft was on a routine patrol over the province of East Kalimantan when it lost contact with air traffic control at around 0100 p.m. local time (0600 GMT), navy spokesman Rear Adm. Iskandar Sitompul said. It was flying between regional airports on the Indonesian half of Borneo island, which is shared with the country's northern neighbor, Malaysia, he said. The Indonesian military has long complained that its fleet of aircraft are outdated and poorly maintained due to underfunding and a recently lifted U.S. ban on weapons sales. A series of military plane crashes has killed dozens this year in Indonesia. Indonesia is in the process of upgrading aviation safety regulations after commercial airline crashes in recent years killed more than 120 people, prompting a ban of Indonesian flights in EU airspace. Source :http://w...