2024 Indonesia DHC-6 Twin Otter crash
Sam Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Crashed into terrain on final approach, under investigation
From Gorontalo-Jalaluddin Airport to Bumi Panua Pohuwato Airport
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
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 0
- 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
- Unknown
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
- 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-SMH
- Operator
- Sam Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Gorontalo-Jalaluddin AirportTo Bumi Panua Pohuwato Airport
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
On 20 October 2024, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter owned by Sam Air crashed on final approach to runway 27 at Bumi Panua Pohuwato Airport, in Indonesia, killing its four occupants on board.
Accident
The Twin Otter with registration number PK-SMH took off from Gorontalo-Jalaluddin Airport at 07:03 local time, heading for Bumi Panua Pohuwato Airport; the flight had an estimated time of arrival of 07:33; on the day of the accident the weather conditions were cloudy.
At 7:22 local time, the Twin Otter disappeared from the air traffic controller's radar. Then, a few hours later, local residents had found the wreckage of the aircraft in the swamps surrounding runway 27 of Bumi Panua Pohuwato Airport, in Gorontalo Province.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
Investigators of the National Transportation Safety Committee of Indonesia (KNKT) arrived at the crash site accompanied by the Provincial National Police.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del DHC-6 Twin Otter en Indonesia de 2024” (revision 172703116, 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
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del DHC-6 Twin Otter en Indonesia de 2024
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 172703116 · 2026-03-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q130629552
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del DHC-6 Twin Otter en Indonesia de 2024" (page 10354077, revision 172703116), 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.