Roberts International Airport (ROB)

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Roberts International Airport (IATA: ROB, ICAO: GLRB), which is informally known as Roberts Field, is an international airport in Liberia in West Africa. The one-way runway airport is located near the town of Harbel about 35 miles (56 miles) from the capital Monrovia, the departure place and destination is called "Monrovia" and is sometimes called "RIA". The name of the airport is to commemorate the first president of Liberia, Joseph Jenkins Roberts. This facility with 11,000 feet (3,400 meters) runway is the US Space Shuttle program, the country's main airport, and the emergency landing point of one of the nation's only two airports. The airport is clearly the busiest and most important airline in the country and it is the only connection to Europe.

Varig Flight 837 flies from Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy to Roberts International Airport in Monrovia, Liberia. On March 5, 1967, the plane crashed as it approached Roberts International Airport runway 04 due to a pilot error. 71 passengers and 19 crew members are on board, 50 passengers and flight engineers died. In addition, five people died in this area. The aircraft fired and was canceled. This is a far more fatal aerial accident in Liberia. On December 22, 1992, all 157 passengers died at flight 1103 while Libya Arab Air Flight 1103 approached Tripoli Airport and two pilots were sprayed and missed. However, Muammar Gaddafi insisted that it ordered the destruction of the aircraft, and some people questioned this conclusion.

The plane was used the night before the accident from Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali to Jakarta · Soekarno Hatta International Airport. Passengers in flight remembered that the aircraft encountered engine problems and engineers told me not to board the plane as they tried to solve the problem. The plane was headed to Jakarta, but there was a problem with maintaining a certain altitude, and passengers said it was like a "roller coaster". Lion Air CEO Edward Sirait said that a "technical problem" occurred on the aircraft on Sunday night, but it was settled according to the manufacturer's maintenance manual. The engineer announced that the aircraft is ready to take off in the morning of the accident.