Mandala Airlines Flight 091 · Medan
On September 5, 2005, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 (Medan). 100 people died.
- Date
- September 5, 2005
- Place
- Medan
- Operator
- Mandala Airlines
- Killed
- 100
- Injured
- 18
- Position
- 3.583°N, 98.667°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q746785
From Wikipedia
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 (RI091/MDL091) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Medan to Jakarta, operated by Mandala Airlines with a Boeing 737-200. On 5 September 2005 at 10:15 a.m. WIB (UTC+7), the aircraft stalled and crashed into a heavily populated residential area seconds after taking off from Polonia International Airport. Of the 117 passengers and crew on board, only 17 survived. An additional 49 civilians on the ground were killed, making a total of 149 fatalities.
The crash of Flight 091 was a shock to North Sumatrans as the leader of North Sumatra province, Governor Rizal Nurdin, and his predecessor, Raja Inal Siregar, were among the passengers and both were killed in the crash.
The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) concluded that the crash was caused by the actions of the flight crew, in that they did not configure the aircraft properly for take-off. The retracted flaps and slats resulted in the aircraft being unable to fly due to insufficient lift.
Text from Wikipedia, “Mandala Airlines Flight 091”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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