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On 10 November 1971, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount, registration PK-MVS, crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, after telling air traffic controllers they could not make their destination due to bad weather. All 69 people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.
The Merpati fleet included the following aircraft prior to its suspension (as of January 2014): [14] Merpati's Boeing 737-200/adv at Adisucipto International Airport, Yogyakarta. Merpati's MA60, PK-MZJ parked at El Tari Airport, Kupang, in January 2011 As of 2011, Merpati no longer operates the ATR 72-200 since the arrival of its newer MA60.
Merpati Airlines Fokker 100 at Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport, Pekanbaru in 2008. The former Indonesian airline Merpati Nusantara Airlines offered flights to many domestic destinations and to Timor Leste, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.
Garuda Indonesia McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 at Ngurah-Rai Airport in 1980 The current airport is named after I Gusti Ngurah Rai , an Indonesian National Hero an Indonesian republican who died on 20 November 1946 in a puputan (fight to the death) against the Dutch at Marga in Tabanan where the Dutch defeated them with the aid of aircraft, killing ...
Minangkabau International Airport (IATA: PDG, ICAO: WIEE) is an airport serving the province of West Sumatra on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located at Ketaping, Padang Pariaman Regency which is about 23 km north-west of Padang city center. The airport became operational in July 2005, replacing the old Tabing Airport in Padang.
Garuda Indonesia Airways is the flag carrier of Indonesia, headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport near Jakarta.A successor of KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, it is a member of SkyTeam airline alliance and the second-largest airline of Indonesia after Lion Air, operating scheduled flights to a number of destinations across Asia, Europe, and Australia from its hubs, focus cities, as ...
Flight 8968 was a domestic passenger service from Sorong to Kaimana.First Officer Nap was the pilot flying while Captain Wahyu was the pilot monitoring. According to the flight log, the aircraft and the crew had flown for three other passenger flights earlier in the day, all of which were in Papua and West Papua.
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 6517 (MZ6517/MNA6517) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bajawa to Kupang, Indonesia. On 10 June 2013, the Xian MA60 twin turboprop operating the route crashed on the runway while landing at Kupang's El Tari Airport, injuring 25 occupants, five seriously. The aircraft was severely damaged in the ...