1971 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crash
Vickers Viscount 828 · Controlled flight into terrain
From Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia to Tabing Airport, Padang, 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
- 69 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 69
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- 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
- Airline
Vickers Viscount 828
- Aircraft type
- Vickers Viscount 828
- Category
- Airplane · 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
- PK-MVS
- Operator
- Merpati Nusantara Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 69
- Route
- From Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta, IndonesiaTo Tabing Airport, Padang, Indonesia
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On 10 November 1971, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount, registration PK-MVS, crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, after telling air traffic controllers they could not make their destination due to bad weather. All 69 people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.
It remains the third worst Vickers Viscount accident.
Accident
The aircraft was flying between Kemayoran Airport in Jakarta, and Tabing Airport, the then airport of Padang. Five minutes before it was scheduled to arrive at Tabing, air traffic controllers lost radio contact with the flight. Controllers at Talang Betutu Airport, Palembang, South Sumatra, reported the aircraft issued a distress signal. The flight crew reportedly said they could not land at Padang because of poor weather and bad visibility. The aircraft subsequently crashed into the Indian Ocean, killing all 62 passengers and seven crew aboard the aircraft.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1971 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crash
- Revision
- 1339317338 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4574525
- 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 "1971 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crash" (page 30270101, revision 1339317338)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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 airline 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.