De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crash, Aug 2, 2009 (15 killed)
De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter accident on August 2, 2009 near Oksibil, Special Region of Papua, Indonesia with 15 fatalities. Cause: Controlled flight...
- Date: August 2, 2009
- Aircraft: De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter
- Location: Oksibil, Special Region of Papua, Indonesia
- Fatalities: 15
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Controlled flight into terrain: the pilots did not keep to visual flight procedures below the lowest safe altitude and the aircraft entered cloud near a gap northwest of Oksibil.
A Merpati Twin Otter flying VFR from Jayapura to Oksibil disappeared in the Papua highlands with 15 people on board. Searchers found the wreckage on 4 August at about 9,300 feet near Oksibil, and all occupants had died in the impact. The accident was consistent with the aircraft being flown into cloud below a safe altitude in mountainous terrain.