Date:	Saturday 29 April 2000
Time:
Type:	IRMA/Britten-Norman BN-2A-20 Islander
Owner/operator:	North Coast Aviation
Registration:	P2-ISA
MSN:	703
Year of manufacture:	1973
Engine model:	Lycoming IO-540-K1B5
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Bapi Airport (BPD) -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Passenger
Departure airport:	Bapi Airport (BPD)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
It is understood that the plane had failed to clear trees at the end of the airstrip. The plane crashed and burned.
Bapi has a single grassed brown clay runway (14/32) which is 495 m long and has a 1,5% slope to the northwest. Elevation of the airport is 2934 feet.

Thomas Brügge
Plane flying very low: witness (NZ Herald, 2-5-2000)

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

15 June 1981	P2-ISA	Talair	0	Rabaul-Lakunai Airfield (RAB)		sub
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