Date: | Monday 31 October 2016 |
Time: | 08:25 |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-4T Caribou |
Owner/operator: | Puncak Regency Administration |
Registration: | PK-SWW |
MSN: | 303 |
Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
Total airframe hrs: | 2748 hours |
Cycles: | 5953 flights |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 11 km S of Ilaga Airport (ILA) -
Indonesia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Timika-Moses Kilangin (Tembagapura) Airport (TIM/WAYY) |
Destination airport: | Ilaga Airport (ILA/WABL) |
Investigating agency: | NTSC |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:A de Havilland Canada DHC-4T Caribou cargo plane is reported missing on a flight from Timika to Ilaga, Papua, Indonesia with four persons on board. The aircraft, owned by the Puncak Regency, carried water-channel construction materials and a cement mixer, weighing 3,130 kilograms in total.
The aircraft took off from Timika at 07:57. Last radio contact was at 08:23 when the flight reported at the Ilaga Pass. The aircraft failed to arrive and an ELT signal was detected 40-45 NM from the 060 radial of the TMK VOR.
The wreckage of the aircraft was located the next day, scattered on a mountainside at an elevation of 3962 meters, 11 km south of Ilaga Airport.
Sources:
cendananews.com Tempo Location
Images:
photo (c) G; Honolulu International Airport, HI (HNL/PHNL); 06 May 2016
photo (c) Stefendy Handoko; Biak-Frans Kaisiepo Airport (BIK/WABB); 03 October 2016
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