Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 18 October 1992 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Site | Mount Papandayan, 30 km west of Garut West Java, Indonesia |
| Passengers | 27 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Fatalities | 31 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | CASA/IPTN CN-235-100 |
| Operator | Merpati Nusantara Airlines |
| Registration | PK-MNN |
| Flight origin | Achmad Yani International Airport, Semarang, Indonesia |
| Destination | Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung , Indonesia |
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight on 18 October 1992. The flight took off from Achmad Yani International Airport, Semarang, Indonesia bound for Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung, Indonesia. The two-year-old CASA/IPTN CN-235-10 was on route when it crashed into the side of Mount Papandayan, West Java, Indonesia at 13:30 UTC in bad weather. The aircraft exploded on impact killing all twenty seven passengers and four crew on board.[1]
Flight 5601 is the worst ever civilian aviation disaster involving a CASA/IPTN CN-235.[2]
See also
- Indonesia portal
- Aviation portal
- 1990s portal
- Disasters portal
- Death portal
- List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline
References
- ↑ Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 13 March 2013.
- ↑ CASA/IPTN CN-235 at Aviation Safety Network
External links
- "Flight Safety Review" (pdf). Flight International: 30. 27 January – 2 February 1993.
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