Susi Air PK-VVQ
Pilatus PC-6 Porter · Accident
From Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport (BPN) to Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport (WALL)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG12WA037
- 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
- 2 · 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
- 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-VVQ
- Operator
- Susi Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport (BPN)To Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport (WALL), Balikpapan,
- 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
- Maneuvering · low-altitude flying
- 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
- Fuel exhaustion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
Susi Air PK VVQ was an aircraft belonging to Susi Air that crashed while conducting a survey in Melak District, West Kutai Regency, and aerial photography of land areas in the Kutai Kartanegara Regency region on 25 April 2012. The aircraft departed from Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Airport, Balikpapan, at 12:41 WITA and lost contact with Melak Airfield, West Kutai, on Wednesday at 17:10 WITA. The crash killed the pilot, a South African citizen, and the cameraman, an Australian citizen. The bodies of both victims of the plane crash were successfully evacuated by a joint SAR team made up of police officers, the Indonesian National Armed Forces and local residents.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Indonesian Wikipedia article “Susi Air PK-VVQ” (revision 24467843, 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
NTSB narrative
On April 25, 2012, at 09:29 UTC time, a Pilatus PC-6/B2-H4, PK-VVQ, operated by Susi Air, impacted terrain near Muaritan after the pilot reported a fuel system problem.The accident is being investigated by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC). The NTSB has appointed an accredited representative to assist the NTSC's investigation as the state of design of certain fuel system components.
All inquiries should be directed to:
National Transportation Safety Committee Ministry of Transportation Building 3rd Floor Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur No.5 Jakarta, Indonesia +62 21 3517606 www.dephub.go.id/knkt
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Indonesian Wikipedia article: Susi Air PK-VVQ
- Article
- Susi Air PK-VVQ
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 24467843 · 2023-10-07 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q12518200
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ENG12WA037
- Event ID
- 20130104X75253
- Case number
- ENG12WA037
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- id Wikipedia article "Susi Air PK-VVQ" (page 899243, revision 24467843), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ENG12WA037 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from NTSB record ENG12WA037
- Map position
- NTSB record ENG12WA037: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
- 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 ENG12WA037
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- 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 "Susi Air PK-VVQ" and NTSB case ENG12WA037, 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.