1999 Kimbe air accident
Airlink Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander · Bad weather
From Hoskins Airport, Hoskins, Papua New Guinea to Kandrian Airport, Kandrian, 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
- 11 · 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
Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander
- Aircraft type
- Britten Norman BN-2
- 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-ALH
- Operator
- Airlink
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Hoskins Airport, Hoskins, Papua New GuineaTo Kandrian Airport, Kandrian, Papua New Guinea
Approximate · Estimated position: Kimbe, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1999 Kimbe air accident occurred on 3 February 1999, when an Airlink IRMA BN-2A-26 Islander en route from Hoskins to Kandrian in Papua New Guinea crashed near Kimbe. The accident occurred 15 minutes after takeoff, when the aircraft ran into bad weather, broke up in the air and crashed into an oil palm plantation. On the flight were the pilot and ten passengers, and all were killed in the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Kimben lento-onnettomuus 1999” (revision 17450409, 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: Kimben lento-onnettomuus 1999
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 17450409 · 2018-07-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q55699591
- 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 "Kimben lento-onnettomuus 1999" (page 1464236, revision 17450409), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- 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 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.