1979 Garuda Indonesian Airways Fokker F28 crash

Aviation accident in Indonesia October 2019 1979 07 11 y Controlled flight into terrain Garuda_Fokker_F28-1000_Volpati-1.jpg A Garuda Indonesia Fokker F28, similar to the one involved. Accident Mount Sibayak, Indonesia 3.25 N 98.5 E title,inline Fokker F28 Mk-1000 PK-GVE Mamberamo Garuda Indonesian Airways Talang Betutu Airport. Palembang, Indonesia Polonia International Airport, Medan, Indonesia 61 57 4 0 61 On 11 July 1979, 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 5560 ft m out on approach to landing, with no survivors.UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary (ICAO Summary 11/79) Background Aircraft The aircraft involved, manufactured on 25 August 1972,Leeuw René de Alting Peter Fokker commercial aircraft : from the F.I. of 1918 up to the Fokker 100 of today 1994 Fokker 205 was a 7-year-old Fokker F28-1000 registered as PK-GVE with serial number 11055.CFIT Accident Fokker F-28 Fellowship 1000 PK-GVE, Wednesday 11 July 1979 https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/328560 2025-05-18 Aviation Safety Network Flight Safety Foundation It was previously registered as PK-GJV before being re-registered as PK-GVE in July 1974.Endres Günter G. World airline fleets 1979 Airline Publications and Sales Ltd Hounslow, Middlesex 978-0-905117-52-2 322 PN GARUDA INDONESIAN AIRWAYS (GA)Photo of Fokker F-28 Fellowship 1000 PK-GJV https://asn.flightsafety.org/photos/1966/Fokker-F-281000-PK-GJV Aviation Safety Network Flight Safety Foundation 26 May 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250526122140/https://asn.flightsafety.org/photos/1966/Fokker-F-281000-PK-GJV 26 May 2025 en live It had a total of 14,154 flight hours in 14,084 flight cycles. The aircraft was named Mamberamo after the Mamberamo River in Western New Guinea. It was purchased by Garuda Indonesia Airways in 1972 for less than 5000000 yes. By March in 1979, the airline owned 30 Fokker F28s before losing one that crashed into Mount Bromo. Crew There were four crew members on board the flight. The captain of the flight was AE Lontoh with around 7,000 hours of flying experience who had first joined Garuda Indonesian Airways in May 1969. The first officer was 26-year-old Moh Nurtjahjo. The flight attendants included 21-year-old Netty Meriyati Pittal Uli br Simatupang who had completed her flight attendant education in December 1978 before starting to work in early 1979 and 20-year-old Raflesiawati Anwar Zen who started working at the airline in April 1979.Tobing Maruli Caro Pius Sudibyo Dudy Kelana Chrys Pardede Syamin Hutabarat Bob Hendrowijono Moch S F-28 Mamberamo Tabrak Lereng Gunung, Semua Penumpang dan Awak Pesawat Tewas (Arsip Kompas) F-28 Mamberamo Crashes into Mountain Slope, All Passengers and Crew Killed (Kompas Archives) https://www.kompas.id/baca/arsip/2022/06/25/f-28-mamberamo-tabrak-lereng-gunung-semua-penumpang-dan-awak-pesawat-tewas 25 May 2025 Kompas 27 June 2022 13 July 1979 Jakarta, Indonesia id registration Accident The aircraft, operating with an unknown flight number,Maharani Ina TRIBUNWIKI: 1995-2018 Ada 29 Kecelakaan Besar Pesawat Indonesia, Ini di 1955-1990 (Ada Pesawat Haji) https://makassar.tribunnews.com/2018/10/30/tribunwiki-1995-2018-ada-29-kecelakaan-besar-pesawat-indonesia-ini-di-1955-1990-ada-pesawat-haji 29 May 2025 Tribun Timur id 30 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181030175637/https://makassar.tribunnews.com/2018/10/30/tribunwiki-1995-2018-ada-29-kecelakaan-besar-pesawat-indonesia-ini-di-1955-1990-ada-pesawat-haji 30 October 2018 id-ID Musibah Pesawat Fokker F-28 Garuda Indonesia 1979 (nomor penerbangan tidak diketahui) terjadi pada 11 Juli 1979. The 1979 Garuda Indonesia Fokker F-28 aircraft disaster (flight number unknown) occurred on July 11, 1979. live 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 2500 ft m. The pilot then reported he was maintaining a height of 9300 ft 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 6000 ft m. The aircraft struck the 7200 ft m mid -high volcano Mount Sibayak at 5560 ft m. Aftermath The crash was officially announced the following day.61 KILLED IN GARUDA AIRLINE CRASH IN SUMATRA https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_fbis-apa-79-135/page/n65/mode/2up 26 May 2025 Agence France-Presse IV 135 Foreign Broadcast Information Service 12 July 1979 Jakarta, Indonesia 66 Internet Archive According to Reuters, local villagers reached the crash site at 2 a.m. and a search party was subsequently sent from Medan.Plane slams hill: 61 killed https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19790713-1.2.15 31 May 2025 The Straits Times Reuters 13 July 1979 Jakarta, Indonesia 1 NewspaperSG According to Agence France-Presse, a search and rescue (SAR) aircraft spotted the wreckage of the plane. No survivors were found. An SAR team headed to the crash site to investigate the cause of the crash. Additionally, Minister of Transportation Roesmin Noerjadin id flew to Medan to investigate the accident. A reporter for Analisa reported that villagers who witnessed the accident reported hearing a boom before seeing a fire at the crash site. He also reported that villagers who participated in the search and rescue at the crash site only found "broken pieces of metal and huge chunks of wreckage".61 die in plane crash in Indonesia mountains https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-star-61-die-in-plane-crash-in-i/172610931/ 25 May 2025 The News-Star The Associated Press 70 4 12 July 1979 Medan, Indonesia 9A The wings and the tail of the aircraft were the only pieces of wreckage that were still recognizable.In Memoriam: Garuda F-28 Tabrak Gunung Sibayak, Semua Penumpang Tewas In Memoriam: Garuda F-28 Crashes into Mount Sibayak, All Passengers Killed https://wahananews.co/nasional/in-memoriam--garuda-f-28-tabrak-gunung-sibayak--semua-penumpang-tewas/0 25 May 2025 Wahana News 11 July 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20250525133116/https://wahananews.co/nasional/in-memoriam--garuda-f-28-tabrak-gunung-sibayak--semua-penumpang-tewas/0 25 May 2025 id live The airline provided the families of the victims with Rp 3400000 in compensation in addition to compensating the passengers' baggages with Rp 2000 per kilogram.Rizal Jawahir Gustav Hardiyanto Sari 11 July 2021 Kecelakaan Pesawat F-28 Mamberamo 11 Juli 1979, Semua Penumpang Tewas Mamberamo F-28 Plane Crash July 11, 1979, All Passengers Killed https://www.kompas.com/tren/read/2021/07/11/133120465/kecelakaan-pesawat-f-28-mamberamo-11-juli-1979-semua-penumpang-tewas 26 May 2025 Kompas id Forty-eight unidentified bodies from the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 were buried in a cemetery outside of Polonia International Airport where 57 occupants of this crash were already buried.Unidentified dead from Indonesia plane crash buried http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/29/indonesia/ 25 May 2025 CNN 29 September 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/19990219223514/http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/29/indonesia/ 19 February 1999 Medan, Indonesia dead Investigation By afternoon the following day, Roesmin Noerjadin said that although a member of the search and rescue team had said that they had found the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, it hadn't been confirmed by their experts. On 14 July, he stated that bad weather and low clouds were probably the cause of the crash.Crash cause https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19790714-1.2.5 31 May 2025 The Straits Times UPI 14 July 1979 Jakarta, Indonesia 1 NewspaperSG See also 1982 Garuda Fokker F28 crash, involving the same type of plane and airline References Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1979 Category:Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Fokker F28 Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Indonesia Category:Garuda Indonesia accidents and incidents Category:1979 in Indonesia Category:July 1979 in Asia Category:1979 disasters in Indonesia