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Nusantara Air Charter PK-YKC

8 May 2013 · Wamena Airport

British Aerospace 146 · Incident

From Dortheys Hiyo Eluay International Airport (DJJ) to Wamena Airport (WMX)

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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
Incident
Event fatalities
Unknown
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
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
Unknown
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

British Aerospace 146

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
PK-YKC
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Dortheys Hiyo Eluay International Airport (DJJ)To Wamena Airport (WMX)

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

From the Wikipedia article

Nusantara Air Charter PK-YKC was an aircraft belonging to Nusantara Air Charter that caught fire at Wamena Airport while it was about to unload cargo. The Nusantara Air Charter aircraft, of the British Aerospace 146 type, flew from Sentani Airport, Jayapura, to Wamena Airport, Wamena, carrying fuel oil. The aircraft caught fire at 11:10 local time while the cargo was being unloaded.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Indonesian Wikipedia article “Nusantara Air Charter PK-YKC” (revision 29860148, 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

Indonesian Wikipedia article: Nusantara Air Charter PK-YKC
Article
Nusantara Air Charter PK-YKC
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
29860148 · 2026-09-18 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q19729838
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
id Wikipedia article "Nusantara Air Charter PK-YKC" (page 1123969, revision 29860148), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
Map position
airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
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
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Indonesian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.