Airlink Flight 120
Embraer EMB-110P2 Bandeirante · Bad weather, collision with a mountain
From Nadzab Airport, Lae, Papua New Guinea to Goroka Airport, Goroka, 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
- 17 · 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
Embraer EMB-110P2 Bandeirante
- Aircraft type
- Embraer EMB-110
- 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-ALX
- Operator
- Airlink
- Onboard fatalities
- 17
- Route
- From Nadzab Airport, Lae, Papua New GuineaTo Goroka Airport, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Approximate · Estimated position: Goroka, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
Airlink Flight 120 was an Airlink scheduled flight from Lae to Goroka in Papua New Guinea. The Embraer EMB-110P2 Bandeirante used on the flight on 17 June 1999 struck a mountain 20 kilometres east-south-east of Goroka. On the flight were 15 passengers and two crew members, and all were killed in the accident.
On the accident flight were three Australians, four South Koreans, two Dutch and one Indian. The remaining seven were citizens of Papua New Guinea. Before the accident the aircraft did not appear to have problems, and moments before striking the mountain the pilot had reported by radio that he was approaching Goroka. The accident investigation found that the aircraft had apparently been flying below the safe altitude in instrument meteorological conditions. The aircraft's wreckage was found on a mountain slope a kilometre off to the side of the planned approach route.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Airlinkin lento 120” (revision 21098882, 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: Airlinkin lento 120
- Article
- Airlinkin lento 120
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 21098882 · 2022-12-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q55701733
- 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 "Airlinkin lento 120" (page 1464246, revision 21098882), 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
- flight number in the article title
- 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.