Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 6715
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 · Missing; presumed to have crashed at sea
From Sultan Muhammad Salahuddin Airport (BMU) to Frans Sales Lega Airport (RTG)
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
- 14 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 14
- 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
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
- Flight
- MZ6715
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- 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-NUK
- Operator
- Merpati Nusantara Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 14
- Route
- From Sultan Muhammad Salahuddin Airport (BMU)To Frans Sales Lega Airport (RTG)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 10 January 1995 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 6715, a scheduled domestic flight in Indonesia from Sultan Muhammad Salahudin Airport, Sumbawa, to Frans Sales Lega Airport, Ruteng, disappeared over the Molo Strait, near the island of Flores. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed in the strait, with the death of all 14 people on board.
Accident
On 10 January 1995, Flight 6715 departed Sultan Muhammad Salahudin Airport for a flight to Ruteng. The aircraft never arrived at its destination, after disappearing while flying over the Molo Strait, just off the coast of Flores. The aircraft wreckage, nor any of its 14 occupants were discovered. Bad weather conditions were present at the time of the accident and are cited as the most probable cause of the accident. Others suggest instead that an explosion, that occurred in the cargo hold of the aircraft, was the cause of the accident.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 6715
- Revision
- 1355248516 · 2026-05-20 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q12498226
- 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 6715" (page 42178283, revision 1355248516)
- 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.