Garuda Indonesia Flight 152

3.264722222222298.68Koordinaten: 3 ° 15 ' 53 "N, 98 ° 40' 48" E

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was a scheduled flight of the Indonesian national airline Garuda Indonesia from Jakarta to Medan, Sumatra, which crashed near Medan on 26 September 1997.

The Airbus A300B4 -220 with the registration PK- GAI crashed on final approach about 29 km before the destination airport in poor visibility in a wooded area off. All 234 people on board were killed in the accident.

The crash was in 1997, the aviation accident with most deaths and the heaviest in the Indonesian aviation.

Starting position

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was from Jakarta Coming, on approach to the airport Medan -Polonia and received course directions of air traffic control for an ILS approach to runway 05 due to forest fires in the region Visibility was poor with visibility of only 600 to 800 meters.

The pilot had already worked more than 20 years for Garuda Indonesia and had more than 12,000 hours of flight experience.

The accident

At about 13:30 local time, there was a misunderstanding between the pilot and the air traffic control over whether the pilots should take a left or a right turn. A few seconds later roamed the Airbus treetops and crashed 18 km further from Medan, near the lying to nearly 3000 feet above sea level Pancur Batu village.

Credentials

• Aircraft Accident
• Traffic accident in 1997
• Traffic