2026 Pelita Air PK-PAA crash
Air Tractor AT-802 · Crashed in mountain forest on the return route after delivering a fuel cargo
From Yuvai Semaring Airport, Long Bawan to Juwata International Airport / Suharnoko Harbani AFB (TRK)
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA26WA111
- 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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 1
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Air Tractor AT-802
- Flight
- IP
- Aircraft type
- Air Tractor AT-802
- 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-PAA
- Operator
- Pelita Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Yuvai Semaring Airport, Long BawanTo Juwata International Airport / Suharnoko Harbani AFB (TRK)
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Loss of control in flight
- 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 from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2026 Pelita Air crash in Nunukan was an aviation accident that occurred on 19 February 2026 in the Krayan area, Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan. The aircraft involved was an Air Tractor AT-802 cargo aircraft with registration PK-PAA operated by Pelita Air Service for the distribution of fuel oil (BBM) under the One Price BBM programme to the border region.
The aircraft crashed while flying from Yuvai Semaring Airport, Long Bawan, to Juwata Airport, Tarakan. The aircraft was crewed by one pilot and carried no passengers. The pilot was reported to have died.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Indonesian Wikipedia article “Kecelakaan Pelita Air PK-PAA 2026” (revision 29744295, 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 Pelita Air PK-PAA 2026
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 29744295 · 2026-09-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q138344270
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA26WA111
- Event ID
- 20260220202468
- Case number
- GAA26WA111
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- id Wikipedia article "Kecelakaan Pelita Air PK-PAA 2026" (page 4690271, revision 29744295), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA26WA111 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia: 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); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA26WA111
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2026 Pelita Air PK-PAA crash" and NTSB case GAA26WA111, 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.