Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 APR 1970 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 |
| Operator: | Trans Australia Airlines - TAA |
| Registration: | VH-TGR |
| C/n / msn: | 6 |
| First flight: | 1966 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 9 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 11 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 5 km (3.1 mls) from Kainantu (Papua New Guinea) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Goroka Airport (GKA/AYGA), Papua New Guinea |
| Kainantu Airstrip, Papua New Guinea |
A de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 was damaged beyond repair in an accident near Kainantu, Papua New Guinea. Eight of the eleven occupants were killed.
The airplane operated on a domestic flight fro Goroka to Kainantu. The airplane clipped trees while flying in low clouds pas a 6000 feet mountain. Part of the starboard wing was ripped off and the plane crashed into a ridge.
Events:
Sources:
» The Sydney Morning Herald - Apr 30, 1970
» The Sydney Morning Herald - Apr 29, 1970
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
