Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 424
Douglas DC-3 · Pilot error, CFIT
From Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia to Juanda International Airport (SUB)
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
- 21 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 21
- 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
Douglas DC-3
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- 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-GDI
- Operator
- Garuda Indonesian Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 21
- Route
- From Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta, IndonesiaTo Juanda International Airport (SUB)
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
Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 424 was a scheduled passenger flight on January 24, 1961, which crashed into Mount Burangrang, 15 km north of its destination. All 21 occupants were killed.
Flight
Flight 424 took off from Jakarta at 10:09 am (local time) for a flight to Surabaya with stopovers in Bandung and Yogyakarta. The plane climbed to a cruising altitude of 3,500 feet to fly below the clouds. At 10:43 am, the flight crew requested permission to climb to 9,500 feet. The plane was then instructed to contact Husein tower at 10:45 am, but the latter didn't acknowledge. A few minutes later, Flight 424 crashed into the western slope of Mount Burangrang at an altitude of 5,400 feet at approximately 10:48 am. The wreckage was found four days later on January 28. All 21 occupants were killed.
The probable cause of the accident was the attempt by the pilot to fly over mountainous terrain when unsure of his position and in weather conditions which severely restricted visibility.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 424
- Revision
- 1339307636 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q110913030
- 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 "Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 424" (page 69934431, revision 1339307636)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- 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.