De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crash, Oct 2, 2015 (10 killed)
De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter accident on October 2, 2015 near Mt Bajaja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia with 10 fatalities. Cause: National Transportation...
- Date: October 2, 2015
- Aircraft: De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter
- Location: Mt Bajaja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Fatalities: 10
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: National Transportation Safety Committee (final report, Jan 2017, per Wikipedia): controlled flight into terrain caused by pilot error; the crew deviated from the visual route to take a shortcut over mountains in cloud, and no ground proximity warning sounded before impact.
On 2 October 2015 a DHC 6 Twin Otter, PK BRM, operated by Aviastar Mandiri on a scheduled flight from Masamba to Makassar with two pilots and eight passengers, left its visual route and flew direct toward high terrain in cloud. It struck mountainous terrain in South Sulawesi and all 10 people on board were killed. The National Transportation Safety Committee final report of January 2017 blamed controlled flight into terrain caused by pilot error.