Status: | |
Date: | Wednesday 24 January 1990 |
Type: | IRMA/Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 Islander |
Operator: | Bougair |
Registration: | VH-BAY |
MSN: | 620 |
First flight: | 1970-09-10 (19 years 5 months) |
Engines: | 2 Lycoming O-540-E4C5 |
Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
Location: | Wakunai Airport (WKN) ( Papua New Guinea)
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Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | ? |
Destination airport: | ? |
Narrative:Shot down. Also reported to have been set on fire by rebels after landing.
The airplane was later seen at Tabubil (TBG) in 2006 as P2-BAY (MountainAir) in deteriorated state. This occurrence may have happened at Tabubil to P2-BAY or VH-BAY was repaired after the 1990 occurrence.
Sources:
» World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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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.