- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | August 02, 2009 |
Time: | 1025 |
Location: | Ampisibil Village, Indonesia |
Operator: | Merpati Nusantara Airlines |
Flight #: | 9760D |
Route: | Jayapura - Oksibil |
AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
Registration: | PK-NVC |
cn / ln: | 626 |
Aboard: | 16 (passengers:13 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 16 (passengers:13 crew:3) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | Contact was lost with the aircraft 15 minutes after taking off. Debris was found in the Bintang mountains at an elevation of 9,300 feet. The crew did not maintain visual flight procedures when flying below lowest safe altitude, and the aircraft was flown into cloud in the vicinity of gap north west of Oksibil. The accident was consistent with controlled flight into terrain. |
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