2005 Nias Island Sea King crash
Royal Australian Navy Westland Sea King · Mechanical failure due to poor maintenance
From an unrecorded airport to Nias, Indonesia
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 2
- 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
- Military
Westland Sea King
- Aircraft type
- Westland SEA KING
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- 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
- N16-100
- Operator
- Royal Australian Navy
- Onboard fatalities
- 9
- Route
- From not recordedTo Nias, Indonesia
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 2 April 2005, a Royal Australian Navy Westland WS-61 Sea King helicopter (tail number N16-100, call sign "Shark 02") of 817 Squadron RAN crashed while approaching to land on a sports field located near the village of Tuindrao in the region of Amandraya on the Indonesian island of Nias, where it was due to provide humanitarian support to people affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The aircraft had 11 personnel on board, of whom two survived the crash.
A Defence Board of Inquiry later found that the primary cause of the accident was a failure of the aircraft's flight control systems. This was as a result of a series of errors, and a general practice of poor maintenance on the aircraft.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2005 Nias Island Sea King crash
- Revision
- 1375045832 · 2026-09-15 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4604680
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2005 Nias Island Sea King crash" (page 1743345, revision 1375045832)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.