| Date: | Monday 4 May 1981 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  GAF Nomad N.22B |
| Owner/operator: | Papua New Guinea Defence Force |
| Registration: | P2-011 |
| MSN: | 52 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1977 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 50 km S of Vanimo -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Imonda Airport (IMD/AYIO) |
| Vanimo Airport (VAI/AYVN) |
Crashed in bad weather in the remote Bewani mountains south of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.
The Nomad crashed while returning to Vanimo from Imonda where they dropped a group of soldiers for an Irian Jaya border patrol.
Sources:
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier 7 May 1981
Location
Images:
photo (c) Martin Hörnlimann, via Werner Fischdick; Melbourne-Essendon Airport, VIC (MEB); March 1981
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