Date: | Thursday 17 July 1997 |
Time: | 11:55 |
Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 |
Owner/operator: | Sempati Air Transport |
Registration: | PK-YPM |
MSN: | 10415 |
Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 532-7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 50 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Bandung -
Indonesia
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Bandung-Husein Sastranegara Airport (BDO/WICC) |
Destination airport: | Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK/WIII) |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The F-27, leased from Trigana Air Services, took off from Bandung at 11:46 West Indian Time for a flight to Jakarta. Shortly after takeoff the aircraft developed engine trouble; smoke was seen emitting from one of the engines. The crew tried to make an emergency landing at Sulaiman Airbase runway 13, but the aircraft clipped roofs and a wall of a housing complex and crashed into a muddy field. The F-27 (named "Jayapura") broke up and caught fire.
On May 14, 1996 PK-YPM was involved in a an accident when the no. 1 prop struck the right wing of a parked F-28 (PK-PJL) at Jakarta.
Sources:
Bart Eissing
ICAO Adrep
Kompas
National Transportation Safety Committee
Location
Images:
photo (c) Reinhard Schmidt, via Werner Fischdick; May 1997
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Jakarta-Kemayoran Airport (JKT); May 1980
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