Global InformationDirgantara Air Service Flight 3130 information
 An Indonesian registered Britten Norman Islander, similar to the crashed aircraft | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 18 November 2000 |
| Summary | Loss of control due to overloading and pilot error |
| Site | Near Datah Dawai Airport, Long Panhangai District, Malinau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Britten Norman BN-2 Islander |
| Operator | Dirgantara Air Service |
| Registration | PK-VIY |
| Flight origin | Datah Dawai Airport, Mahakam Ulu Regency, Indonesia |
| Destination | Samarinda Temindung Airport, Samarinda, Indonesia |
| Passengers | 17 (including 2 infants and a five-month pregnant woman) |
| Crew | 1 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injuries | 18 |
| Survivors | 18 |
Dirgantara Air Service Flight 3130 (DIR3130/AW3130) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Dirgantara Air Service from Datah Dawai Airport, Malinau Regency, East Kalimantan to its provincial capital's airport, Samarinda Temindung Airport, Samarinda, East Kalimantan. On 18 November 2000, the aircraft conducting the flight, a Britten Norman Islander BN-2 sheared tree tops and crashed onto the forest near the airport shortly after takeoff. Search and rescue team immediately found the wreckage of Flight 3130 and the survivors. No one was killed in the crash, but all 18 people on board were injured in the crash; 11 of them were seriously hurt.[1][2]
The final report, published by the National Transportation Safety Committee, concluded that the crash was caused due to multiple factors, which were pilot error, overloading, and lack of safety in the airport (bribery). The wrong perception by the pilot, added with the plane overloading that was caused by bribery, subsequently causing the plane to crash. The airline ceased operations in 2009 and officially went bankrupt in 2013.[3]
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