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2002 CASA Aviocar accident at Maimun Saleh Airport

11 Apr 2002 · Sabang-Maimun Saleh Airport, Indonesia

Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter CASA/Nurtanio NC-212 Aviocar 100 · Propeller incident with personal injury

From Sabang-Maimun Saleh Airport, Indonesia to an unrecorded destination

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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
Incident
Event fatalities
1 · all aircraft and ground (occupants minus survivors)
Ground fatalities
1
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
16
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

CASA/Nurtanio NC-212 Aviocar 100

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-ZAI
Onboard fatalities
0 (occupants minus survivors)
Route
From Sabang-Maimun Saleh Airport, IndonesiaTo not recorded

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

The 2002 Sabang Airport incident occurred on 11 April 2002, when a regional flight within Indonesia was to begin with a CASA/Nurtanio NC-212 Aviocar 100 of Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter (SMAC) at Maimun Saleh Airport in Sabang. A propeller incident with personal injury occurred in which one person was killed.

Sequence of events

After boarding was completed, the pilots started the engines in order to taxi from the gate to the runway. Suddenly a man ran out of the airport building and towards the aircraft. As he ran towards the aircraft, he ran into the aircraft's left propeller and was killed. The aircraft was only slightly damaged.

Accident investigation

The accident investigation revealed that the man killed was a passenger who had been booked on the flight. The man had arrived late at the airport and had tried to still catch the flight. It was speculated that the man had reached the apron via a VIP room that was unguarded at that time.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer CASA Aviocar auf dem Maimun Saleh Airport 2002” (revision 258179840, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer CASA Aviocar auf dem Maimun Saleh Airport 2002
Article
Flugunfall einer CASA Aviocar auf dem Maimun Saleh Airport 2002
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
258179840 · 2025-07-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q84955166
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
de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer CASA Aviocar auf dem Maimun Saleh Airport 2002" (page 10928652, revision 258179840), translated into English with AI assistance
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 is an airline according to Wikidata
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities plus ground fatalities (aircraft occupants minus survivors)
Ground fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
  • The Wikipedia infobox's fatality count includes the ground fatalities (its survivors account for everyone else aboard); those aboard who died are that count minus the ground fatalities.