Date:	Friday 21 July 1989
Time:
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
Owner/operator:	Talair
Registration:	P2-RDW
MSN:	366
Year of manufacture:	1973
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 22
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Porgera Airport (RGE) -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Mount Hagen-Kagamuga Airport (HGU/AYMH)
Destination airport:	Porgera Airport (RGE)

Narrative:
Crashed into a dense rainforest in the Porgera East Gap.

WCAA
The Canberra Times - 24 Jul 1989
Balus, the aeroplane in Papua New Guinea. Volume III, Wings of a nation / James Sinclair

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Pointe-à-Pitre-Le Raizet Airport, Guadeloupe (PTP); March 1979

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