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2001 CASA Aviocar accident at Long Bawan Airport

19 Dec 2001 · Long Bawan Airport, Indonesia

Dirgantara Air Services CASA/Nurtanio NC-212-CC4 Aviocar 200 · Propeller incident with personal injury

From an unrecorded airport to Long Bawan Airport, Indonesia

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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
2
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-CC4 Aviocar 200

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-VSB
Onboard fatalities
0 (occupants minus survivors)
Route
From not recordedTo Long Bawan Airport, 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

The CASA Aviocar accident at Long Bawan Airport occurred on 19 December 2001, when a CASA/Nurtanio NC-212-CC4 Aviocar 200 cargo aircraft of Dirgantara Air Services was being handled at Long Bawan Airport after a regional cargo flight within Indonesia. A man ran into a turning propeller; he was killed instantly.

Sequence of events

After a domestic cargo flight the aircraft was standing at Long Bawan Airport and was being unloaded by a ground staff employee, while the two pilots remained in the cockpit. Since the aircraft had no auxiliary power unit and no ground power unit was available either, engine No. 2 remained running during unloading to ensure that the generator produced power for the on-board electrical system. No security personnel had been assigned to monitor activities on the apron. The aircraft was oriented at 40 degrees, with the nose landing gear 7 metres and the main landing gear 6.2 metres from the edge of the apron. A man who was helping with the unloading suddenly ran into the turning propeller of engine No. 2. It struck him on the head; he was killed instantly.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer CASA Aviocar am Flughafen Long Bawan 2001” (revision 258179822, 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 am Flughafen Long Bawan 2001
Article
Flugunfall einer CASA Aviocar am Flughafen Long Bawan 2001
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
258179822 · 2025-07-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q84955167
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 am Flughafen Long Bawan 2001" (page 10928668, revision 258179822), 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
Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A cargo aircraft of Dirgantara Air Services unloading after a regional cargo flight: an air transport company carrying cargo, airline. The article: "a CASA/Nurtanio NC-212-CC4 Aviocar 200 cargo aircraft of Dirgantara Air Services was being handled at Long Bawan Airport after a regional cargo flight within Indonesia"
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.