ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326749
| Date: | Saturday 20 June 1987 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  IRMA/Britten-Norman BN-2A-20 Islander |
| Owner/operator: | Kiunga Aviation |
| Registration: | P2-KAD |
| MSN: | 800 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 32 km from Lae -
 Papua New Guinea
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Ogeranang Airstrip (OGE/AYOG) |
| Lae-Nadzab Airport (LAE/AYNZ) |
The BN-2A-20 Islander aircraft crashed into the side of a mountain at 8,700 ft in an area of the Rawlinson Ranges known as Twenty Mile Gap. The aircraft was returning to Nadzab Airport with a cargo of coffee from remote Ogeranang.
Sources:
The Canberra Times - 23 Jun 1987
Scramble
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