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The pilot-in-command was 40-year-old Captain Mohammad Tarmizi Muda, [3] he was a former military pilot, and had a total of 3,947 flight hours, 783 were on the Dornier 228; [1]: 7 The pilot-monitoring was 29-year-old First Officer Wong Lein Yee, [3] with 1,120 total flight hours, he had 22 hours of experience on the Dornier 228.
Air France Flight 447, a 2009 fatal crash involving an Airbus A330 resulting from a high-altitude stall and pilots making opposite inputs with the aircraft's side-stick controls; Accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A320 family; List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities
The crash killed 136 people, consisting of 12 crew, 123 troops and a security guard on the ground. [70] 25 October: a Bali International Air Service Britten-Norman Trislander carrying 17 passengers and crews went missing above the Bornean jungle while circling over Sampit in Central Kalimantan. [71]
Immediately after that, the crew requested a landing clearance for Magong. Kaohsiung Approach then assigned the flight to a lower altitude and radar vector. [3]: 2–3 At 18:55 the aircraft was cleared to land. Flight 222 descended and maintained their altitude at 2,000 feet (610 m), then descended to their assigned altitude of 400 feet (120 m).
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
Trigana Air Flight 267 was a scheduled passenger flight from Sentani to Oksibil in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua.On 16 August 2015, the ATR 42 turboprop operating the service crashed on approach in the Bintang highlands region of Oksibil, killing all 49 passengers and 5 crew members.
Without a constant up-to-date view of the flight's heading, the controller thought the plane was continuing left, when it was actually turning right and over high terrain. During this time the flight descended below 2,000 feet, probably due to the captain inputting the wrong altitude.
The crash of Flight 812 was a wake-up call for Pan Am. Flight 812 was the third 707 the airline had lost in the Pacific in less than a year after Pan Am Flight 806 in Pago Pago on 30 January 1974 and Pan Am Flight 816 in Papeete on 22 July 1973.