KRI Fatahillah
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
KRI Fatahillah is an Indonesian Navy vessel[1] named after Fatahillah, a national war heroic figure who successfully captured back Sunda Kelapa from the hands of the Portuguese and consequently changed its name to Jayakarta. The ship is a missile-equipped destroyer type, the first ship of Fatahillah class.
[edit] Notable deployments
The ship is part of a team several Indonesian and one US Navy vessels searching for the missing Adam Air flight 574. It has located several unidentified metal objects which may be part of the missing plane.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b More Adam Air plane wreckage discovered - Daily Telegraph