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. Indonesias armed forces (Indonesian: Tentara Nasional Indonesia, abbreviated as TNI, formerly Angkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesia, abbreviated as ABRI) total about 1,602,000 members, including the Army (TNI-AD), Navy(including marines), and Air Force. ... From the Greek , in mythology and folklore, a hero (male) or heroine (female) usually fulfills the definitions of what is considered good and noble in the originating culture. ... This page is about the capital city of Indonesia. ...

Notable deployments

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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] Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... USN redirects here. ... An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport - Jakarta. ... Adam Air Flight 574 (KI-574) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Surabaya (SUB) and Manado (MDC) in Indonesia[2] which disappeared near Polewali in Sulawesi on January 1, 2007. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} More Adam Air plane wreckage discovered - Daily Telegraph

External links

• KRI Fatahillah on TNI-AL's (Indonesian Navy) website