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PT Airfast Indonesia Bell 412SP accident

25 Sept 2011 · Mataram, West Nusa, Indonesia

Bell 412SP · Accident en route

From Dodo Camp to Lemurung Camp

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Event

NTSB case
WPR11WA476
Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
API-reported fatalities
2 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Charter & commuter
WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
Not recorded

Bell 412SP

Aircraft type
Bell 412
Category
Helicopter
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
PK-OVC
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Dodo CampTo Lemurung Camp
Aircraft age
Not recorded
Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
Non-U.S., Commercial
Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
En route · cruise
Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
Unknown or undetermined
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
Substantial

Cause areas

No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

On September 25, 2011, at 1341 local time (0541 UTC) a Bell Helicopter 412SP, Indonesia registry PK-OVC, crashed in a jungle under unknown circumstances 150 kilometers east of Selaparang Airport, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The Helicopter was operated by PT Airfast Indonesia under the pertinent provisions of the Indonesia Civil Aviation Regulations and was on a cargo flight. The helicopter sustained substantial damage and both crew members were fatally injured. The flight originated at Dodo Camp Airport and was destined for Lemurung Camp. This report is for informational purposes and only contains information released by the government of Indonesia.

The accident is under the jurisdiction of, and is being investigated by, the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) of the government of Indonesia. Any further information can be obtained by contacting the NTSC:

Ministry of Transportation Building, 3rd Floor Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur No. 5 Jakarta, Indonesia

Telephone 62 21 3517606 Facsimile 62 21 3517606

www.dephub.go.id/knkt

Email knkt@dephub.go.id

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record WPR11WA476
Event ID
20110930X33258
Case number
WPR11WA476
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
  • Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
  • No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
  • The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: 919b8cc9d1d181ac3b680e1228a07bd37470a829a8113323ea825eb1aaa17ce2; retrieved 2026-09-13T21:52:56.527Z.