2025 Meratus Mountains helicopter crash
Eastindo Air MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 · Aircraft accident (under investigation)
From Gusti Syamsir Alam Airport (KBU) to Tjilik Riwut Airport (PKY)
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
- 8 · 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
- 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
- Unknown
MBB/Kawasaki BK 117
- Aircraft type
- Mbb/kawasaki BK-117
- Category
- Helicopter · 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-RGH
- Operator
- Eastindo Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Gusti Syamsir Alam Airport (KBU)To Tjilik Riwut Airport (PKY)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2025 Meratus Mountains BK117 D3 helicopter crash was an aircraft accident that occurred on 1 September 2025. A BK117 D3 helicopter belonging to the company Eastindo Air with registration PK-RGH lost contact and crashed in a forested area on the slopes of the Meratus Mountains, specifically on Mount Belumutan, Tanah Bumbu Regency, South Kalimantan. The crash killed all eight people on board, including two crew and six passengers.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Indonesian Wikipedia article “Kecelakaan helikopter Pegunungan Meratus 2025” (revision 27812870, 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 helikopter Pegunungan Meratus 2025
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 27812870 · 2025-09-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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 "Kecelakaan helikopter Pegunungan Meratus 2025" (page 4502944, revision 27812870), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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 Indonesian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.