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Aerial view of Lion Air Flight 610 crash site. Indonesia‘s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) launched a search-and-rescue operation, with assistance from the Indonesian Air Force, [64] the Indonesian Navy, [65] and the Republic of Singapore Navy. Basarnas dispatched about 150 people in boats and helicopters to the site of the ...
1991 Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2003 Bawean incident; 2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash; 2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash; 2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash; 2015 Sumatra Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2016 Alfa Indonesia DHC-4 crash; 2016 Halim Airport runway collision; 2016 Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash
1 January 1966: The first known mid air collision in Indonesia, two Garuda Indonesia C-47As collided in mid-air near Palembang, killing all 34 on board both aircraft. [39] [40] 16 February 1967: Garuda Indonesia Flight 708 crashed on landing at Manado due to pilot error, killing 22 of 92 on board. [41]
The Indonesian Air Force said it was unlikely that the cause of the plane crash would be shared publicly, a practice said to be a military standard around the world. [13] The plane had passed inspection the day before the crash. [11]
It was the deadliest C-130 Hercules crash in Indonesian history, surpassing the 1991 Hercules crash in East Jakarta, the third-deadliest air disaster in the province of North Sumatra, after Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 and Mandala Airlines Flight 091, and the second air disaster in Indonesia within six months, after Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 ...
Trigana Air Flight 267 was a scheduled passenger flight from Sentani to Oksibil in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua.On 16 August 2015, the ATR 42 turboprop operating the service crashed on approach in the Bintang highlands region of Oksibil, killing all 49 passengers and 5 crew members.
A man survived the crash. Two people on the ground were also killed. With 135 fatalities, the crash was the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Indonesia until the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 in 1997. It is now the sixth-deadliest. [1] [3] [5]
The Indonesian Air Force sent a team of investigators to the site of the crash and stated that it planned to analyse several factors possibly contributing to the crash. Eyewitness reports stated that the area surrounding the crash was covered with thick fog, and it was possible that the crew had lost their orientation due to the poor visibility ...