A Garuda Indonesia Fokker F28, similar to the one involved.
Accident
Date
11 July 1979 (1979-07-11)
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain
Site
Mount Sibayak, Indonesia
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Fokker F28 Mk-1000
Aircraft name
Mamberamo
Operator
Garuda Indonesian Airways
Registration
PK-GVE
Flight origin
Talang Betutu Airport Palembang, Indonesia
Destination
Polonia Int'l Airport Medan, Indonesia
Occupants
61
Passengers
57
Crew
4
Fatalities
61
Survivors
0
The 1979 Garuda Fokker F28 crash occurred on 11 July 1979 when a Garuda Indonesian Airways Fokker F28 airliner on a domestic flight in Indonesia from Talang Betutu Airport, Palembang, to Polonia International Airport (now Soewondo Air Force Base), Medan, struck Mount Sibayak at 5,560 feet (1,690 m) on approach to landing, with no survivors.[1]
The aircraft had departed Palembang 80 minutes earlier and had been cleared for an approach to runway 05 at Medan Airport. The aircraft was asked to report passing the nondirectional beacon (NDB) "ON" at 2,500 feet (760 m). The pilot then reported he was maintaining a height of 9,300 feet (2,800 m) as the NDB was unreliable. The approach controller then asked them to maintain that height until after they had passed the NDB. The pilot then reported they were at 6,000 feet (1,800 m). The aircraft struck the 7,200-foot-high (2,200 m) volcano Mount Sibayak at 5,560 feet (1,690 m).[1]
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