Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836
Boeing 737-322 · Runway overrun on landing due to bad weather
From Domine Eduard Osok Airport (SOQ) to Rendani Airport (MKW)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA051
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 110
- Survivors
- 110
- 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
- 44
- 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
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Boeing 737-322
- Flight
- MZ836
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane
- 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-MDE
- Operator
- Merpati Nusantara Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Domine Eduard Osok Airport (SOQ)To Rendani Airport (MKW)
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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 from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836 was a scheduled domestic flight between Sorong and Manokwari, Indonesia. On April 13th, 2010, the flight, operated by a Boeing 737-300 (registered as PK-MDE), overran the runway on landing at Rendani Airport. The aircraft broke into three pieces. All of the 110 occupants on board survived, with 44 of them receiving injuries.
Accident
At 11:00 local time (02:00 UTC), Flight 836 overran the runway on landing at Rendani Airport, Manokwari, Indonesia on a scheduled domestic flight from Sorong Airport, Sorong. All 110 people on board survived, with 44 of them being injured, including 10 who were seriously injured and 34 who were minorly injured. The flight was carrying 103 passengers and 6 crew. The weather at the time was rain and mist. After departing the end of the runway, the aircraft struck some trees, tearing off the port wing. The fuselage ended up some 200 m beyond the end of the 2004 m long runway at Rendani Airport. The tail of the aircraft broke off and came to rest in the creek off the Northern end of Runway 35. The Captain was reported to have over 16,000 hours total flight time and the co-pilot over 22,000 hours.
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NTSB narrative
On April 13, 2010, a Merpati Airlines B737-300, Indonesian registration PK-MDE, overran runway 17 upon landing at Rendani airport, Manokwari, West Papua, Indonesia. Weather was reported as heavy rain. The airplane was substantially damaged and there were 20 injuries. This accident is being investigated by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (http://www.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_home/ntsc.htm).
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836
- Revision
- 1342753299 · 2026-03-10 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q2424011
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA10WA051
- Event ID
- 20100414X90838
- Case number
- DCA10WA051
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836" (page 26938697, revision 1342753299); merged with NTSB case DCA10WA051 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: 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); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA10WA051
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836" and NTSB case DCA10WA051, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.