1979 Manari air accident
Douglas Airways GAF Nomad · Crash
From Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM) to Manari Airport, Manari, Papua New Guinea
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
- Operator
- Douglas Airways
- 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
- 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.