FLIGHT FINDINGSAVIATION OCCURRENCE MAP
Back to map

2014 Pilatus crash

19 Jan 2014 · Tual, Maluku

PT Intan Angkasa Air Service Pilatus PC-6 Porter · Accident

From Sentani, Papua to Bau-Bau, Southeast Sulawesi

Report a problem

Event

NTSB case
WPR14WA108
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
InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
Event fatalities
4 · 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
WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
Not recorded

Pilatus PC-6 Porter

Aircraft type
Pilatus PC-6
Category
Airplane
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-IWT
Onboard fatalities
4
Route
From Sentani, PapuaTo Bau-Bau, Southeast Sulawesi
Aircraft age
Not recorded
Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
Not recorded
Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
Approach
Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
Unknown or undetermined
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
Destroyed

Cause areas

No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

From the Wikipedia article

The 2014 Pilatus crash was an aircraft crash on 19 January 2014 involving an aircraft owned by PT Intan Angkasa Air Service. The aircraft departed from Sentani, Papua bound for Bau-Bau, Southeast Sulawesi with 4 crew members aboard. The aircraft is estimated to have crashed at 12.20 WIT, while heading to Tual to refuel. The crash is believed to have been caused by bad weather, resulting in the 4 crew members being killed in this aircraft crash.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Indonesian Wikipedia article “Kecelakaan pesawat Pilatus 2014” (revision 22934292, 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: Kecelakaan pesawat Pilatus 2014
Article
Kecelakaan pesawat Pilatus 2014
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
22934292 · 2023-02-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q19727433
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record WPR14WA108
Event ID
20140130X70344
Case number
WPR14WA108
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
Record
id Wikipedia article "Kecelakaan pesawat Pilatus 2014" (page 1433536, revision 22934292), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case WPR14WA108 (events / aircraft)
Date
Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site; country from NTSB record WPR14WA108
Map position
NTSB record WPR14WA108: events decimal coordinates
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record WPR14WA108
Operation
not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
Fatalities
Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
  • One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2014 Pilatus crash" and NTSB case WPR14WA108, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
  • No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.