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1979 Manari air accident

23 Dec 1979 · Manari Airport, Manari, Papua New Guinea

Douglas Airways GAF Nomad · Crash

From Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM) to Manari Airport, Manari, Papua New Guinea

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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
Accident
Event fatalities
16 · 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
Airline

GAF Nomad

Aircraft type
Gaf NOMAD
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
P2-DNL
Onboard fatalities
16
Route
From Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM)To Manari Airport, Manari, Papua New Guinea

Approximate · Estimated position: Manari Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.

From the Wikipedia article

The 1979 Manari air accident occurred on 23 December 1979, when a Douglas Airways GAF N22B Nomad on a scheduled flight from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to Manari crashed at Manari Airport. On the flight were 14 passengers and two crew members, and all were killed in the accident. It is the worst accident to have happened to a GAF Nomad.

While landing at Manari the aircraft had already touched the ground, but the pilot then pulled up. The aircraft banked to the left and began to dive steeply downwards, until it finally struck a slope beside the runway.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Manarin lento-onnettomuus 1979” (revision 17450106, 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

Finnish Wikipedia article: Manarin lento-onnettomuus 1979
Article
Manarin lento-onnettomuus 1979
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
17450106 · 2018-07-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q55691220
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
fi Wikipedia article "Manarin lento-onnettomuus 1979" (page 1464116, revision 17450106), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
airport the Wikipedia infobox site names (OurAirports, exact name)
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 named as an airline in the infobox
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Finnish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.