Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 106
British Aerospace ATP · Loss of control
From Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK) to H A S Hanandjoeddin International Airport (TJQ)
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
- 15 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 53
- Survivors
- 38
- 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
British Aerospace ATP
- Flight
- MZ106
- Aircraft type
- British AEROSPACE ATP
- 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-MTX
- Operator
- Merpati Nusantara Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 15
- Route
- From Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)To H A S Hanandjoeddin International Airport (TJQ)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 19 April 1997, Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 106, a British Aerospace ATP operating a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Soekarno Hatta International Airport to Buluh Tumbang Airport, Indonesia, crashed into a coconut plantation whilst on approach to the airport, killing 15 of the 53 passengers and crew on board the aircraft.
Accident
The flight took off from Soekarno Hatta International Airport at 06:40 WIB (UTC+07:00) en route to Buluh Tumbang Airport with an estimated arrival time of 07:50. At 07:35, at an altitude of 2000 ft, the captain asked air traffic control for permission to land, to which they instructed the flight to land on runway 36. At 07:39, the aircraft crashed into a coconut plantation in Bulutumbang village, 6 km short of the runway. According to residents, the plane crashed nose-first into terrain. The plane broke into two sections with fire igniting in the front part of the aircraft.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 106
- Revision
- 1339305003 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q15927922
- 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 "Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 106" (page 42177984, revision 1339305003)
- 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
- airline flight number 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.