Airlines PNG Flight 1600 · Gogol River
On October 13, 2011, Airlines PNG Flight 1600 (Gogol River). 28 people died.
- Date
- October 13, 2011
- Place
- Gogol River
- Operator
- PNG Air
- Killed
- 28
- Injured
- 4
- Position
- 5.508°S, 145.897°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q3501432
From Wikipedia
On 13 October 2011, Airlines PNG Flight 1600, a Dash 8 regional aircraft on a domestic flight from Lae to Madang, Papua New Guinea, crash-landed in a forested area near the mouth of the Guabe River, after losing all engine power. Only 4 of the 32 people on board survived. It is the second-deadliest plane crash in the history of Papua New Guinea, behind a Lockheed L-14 crash, with 37 fatalities.
The subsequent investigation found that the flight crew retarded the throttle levers below the lowest position allowable in flight (known as flight idle), causing both propellers to overspeed and leading to a complete loss of engine power. A 'beta lockout' mechanism that would have prevented the overspeed even in case of erroneous power lever setting was available but not installed on the accident aircraft. Installation of such a mechanism became subsequently mandatory on all DHC-8 aircraft worldwide.
Text from Wikipedia, “Airlines PNG Flight 1600”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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