Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601 information

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Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601

PK-MND, sister ship to the accident aircraft.
Accident
Date	18 October 1992
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Mount Papandayan, 30 km (19 mi; 16 nmi) west of Garut, West Java, Indonesia
Aircraft
Aircraft type	CASA/IPTN CN-235-100
Aircraft name	Trangadi
Operator	Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Registration	PK-MNN
Flight origin	Achmad Yani International Airport, Semarang, Indonesia
Destination	Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung, Indonesia
Passengers	27
Crew	4
Fatalities	31
Survivors	0

Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601 (MNA5601/MZ5601) was a domestic scheduled passenger flight, that departed Achmad Yani International Airport, Semarang, Indonesia bound for Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung, Indonesia. On 18 October 1992, the two-year-old CASA/IPTN CN-235-10 was on approach to Bandung when it crashed into Mount Puntang, near Mount Papandayan, West Java, Indonesia at 1:30 pm in bad weather. The aircraft exploded on impact killing all twenty seven passengers and four crew on board.^[1]

Flight 5601 is the worst ever civilian aviation disaster involving a CASA/IPTN CN-235, the deadliest in the company's history, the deadliest in Garut history, and the second deadliest aviation accident in Indonesia in 1992, after a plane flew into a mountain in eastern Indonesia which claimed 70 lives.^[2]

The crash sparked large controversy and trust issues in every Indonesian built aircraft. This is because the plane was produced and designed by Bacharudin Jusuf Habibie, a former Indonesian president who at the time held the position of State Minister of Science and Technology. He denied that the cause of the accident was because of design flaws. An Indonesian investigator team and the National Transportation Safety Committee confirmed that the cause of the crash wasn't because of design flaws, but due to pilot error aggravated by bad weather conditions.