1994 Olsobip air accident
Mission Aviation Fellowship De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Collision with a mountain
From Tabubil Airport, Tabubil, Papua New Guinea to Selbang Airport, Selbang, 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
- 28 · 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
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
- P2-MFS
- Operator
- Mission Aviation Fellowship
- Onboard fatalities
- 28
- Route
- From Tabubil Airport, Tabubil, Papua New GuineaTo Selbang Airport, Selbang, Papua New Guinea
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Olsobip, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1994 Olsobip air accident occurred on 17 December 1994, when a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-200 Twin Otter of the Mission Aviation Fellowship missionary organisation struck a mountain near Olsobip in Papua New Guinea. On the flight were 26 passengers and two crew members, and all were killed in the impact. It is the worst accident to have happened to a DHC-6.
The accident aircraft was on a charter flight and was carrying workers of the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine with their families. Among the passengers were also eight children. The DHC-6 Twin Otter has seats for 18 passengers, but because some of the children travelled on their parents' laps, the aircraft was not actually overloaded. The suspected cause of the crash was bad weather, which is common in mountain areas.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Olsobipin lento-onnettomuus 1994” (revision 17450214, 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: Olsobipin lento-onnettomuus 1994
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 17450214 · 2018-07-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q55698449
- 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 "Olsobipin lento-onnettomuus 1994" (page 1464221, revision 17450214), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- centre of the town the Wikipedia infobox site names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)
- 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
- 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.