What the records say
- When
- 13 Apr 2016
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 6.13° S, 141.28° E
- Description
- Aviation accident in Papua New Guinea
- Deaths
- 12
- Participants
- 12
2016 Sunbird Aviation Britten-Norman Islander crash
Aviation accident in Papua New Guinea
On 13 April 2016, a Britten-Norman BN-2T Turbine Islander operated by Sunbird Aviation crashed about 1,200 m short of runway 7 at Kiunga Airport in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. The plane pitched up right before the crash, then dropped its right wing and fell almost vertically to the ground. Eleven passengers and the 31-year-old Australian pilot, Benjamin Picard, were killed.
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