What the records say
- When
- 2 Aug 2009
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 4.71° S, 140.62° E
- Description
- Crash of a regional aircraft in Indonesia in 2009
- Deaths
- 15
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760D
2009 aviation accident
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760D was a domestic commercial passenger 50-minutes flight, flying from Sentani Airport in Papua's Province Jayapura to Oksibil Airport in Oksibil, Indonesia operated by a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300. On Sunday, August 2, 2009, while carrying fifteen people over Papua, the aircraft went missing en route. Its wreckage was found a few miles from Oksibil two days later.
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