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| Date: | Friday 16 October 1987 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 402A |
| Owner/operator: | Talair |
| Registration: | P2-GKG |
| MSN: | 402A-0070 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Malekolon, Feni Islands, New Ireland -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| Malekolon | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The aircraft overshot the runway on landing and went into the sea in the channel between Ambitle and Babase Islands. The pilot Garry Ona Tai (29) and the sole passenger died. The aircraft settled in shallow water several hundred metres beyond the threshold but was unrecoverable.
Sources:
Canberra Times, 17 October 1987, page 4,
Balus, Vol. III, page 324.
Images:
Malekolon, 1987
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Jul-2019 06:49 | Petropavlovsk | Added |
| 11-Jun-2022 06:03 | Turbulator | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 11-Jun-2022 06:47 | Anon. | Updated [Source, ] |
| 19-Jun-2023 05:23 | Ron Averes | Updated |
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