Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 14 APR 1992 |
| Type: | Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante |
| Operator: | Talair |
| Registration: | P2-RDS |
| C/n / msn: | 110355 |
| First flight: | 1981 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 13 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 15 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Goroka Gap (Papua New Guinea) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Madang Airport (MAG/AYMD), Papua New Guinea |
| Goroka Airport (GKA/AYGA), Papua New Guinea | |
| Flightnumber: | 709 |
Crashed into a mountain.
Sources:
» Flight International
» Scramble 156
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Madang Airport to Goroka Airport as the crow flies is 106 km (66 miles).
Distance from Madang Airport to Goroka Airport as the crow flies is 106 km (66 miles).
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.
