What the records say
- When
- 26 Sep 1997
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 3.26° N, 98.68° E
- Description
- Aviation accident
- Deaths
- 234
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152
1997 aviation accident in Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Garuda Indonesia from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Indonesia, to Polonia International Airport, Medan, Indonesia. On 26 September 1997, the Airbus A300 flying the route crashed into mountainous woodlands near the village of Buah Nabar, Sibolangit, killing all 222 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nähe Medan, Sumatra, Indonesien”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “катастрофа A300 под Меданом”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “印尼神鷹航空班機在棉蘭附近墜毀,234人罹難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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