Date: | Sunday 26 July 2020 |
Time: | 12:46 LT |
Type: | Cessna 402C Utiliner |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | VH-TSI |
MSN: | 402C0492 |
Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Papa Lealea, Central - Papua New Guinea |
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Illegal Flight |
Departure airport: | Papa Lealea |
Mareeba, near Cairns | |
Investigating agency: | AIC PNG |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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An Australian registered aircraft has crashed at Papalealea outside of Port Moresby. There are suspicions that it was involved in an illegal smuggling operation as its transponder was turned off and it did not have an approved flight path #PNG pic.twitter.com/t3HR7kAGUz
— Deni ToKunai (@Tavurvur) July 27, 2020
Safety probe reveals why alleged drug flight between PNG and Australia ended in disaster https://t.co/1CAtafkoJx via @SBSNews
— Aerossurance (@Aerossurance) January 5, 2021
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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27-Jul-2020 08:06 | Petropavlovsk | Added |
27-Jul-2020 08:31 | gerard57 | Updated [Source] |
27-Jul-2020 11:07 | Aerossurance | Updated [Date, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
27-Jul-2020 12:06 | Petropavlovsk | Updated [Date, Embed code] |
27-Jul-2020 15:32 | Aerossurance | Updated [Date, Source, Narrative] |
28-Jul-2020 18:13 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Narrative] |
29-Jul-2020 07:04 | gerard57 | Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
30-Jul-2020 06:31 | gerard57 | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
01-Aug-2020 08:52 | gerard57 | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Aug-2020 08:52 | gerard57 | Updated [Total occupants] |
15-Aug-2020 18:57 | harro | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
15-Aug-2020 19:00 | harro | Updated [Narrative] |
04-Jan-2021 19:38 | harro | Updated [Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
05-Jan-2021 14:22 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Embed code, Accident report] |
26-Jun-2023 16:30 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Source, Embed code, Accident report]] |