2021 Boeing 737-200 PK-JRW accident
Jayawijaya Dirgantara Boeing 737-200 · Under investigation
From Sentani International Airport to Wamena Airport
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
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
Boeing 737-200
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- 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-JRW
- Operator
- Jayawijaya Dirgantara
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Sentani International AirportTo Wamena Airport
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2021 Boeing 737-200 PK-JRW accident was an unscheduled cargo flight operated by a Jayawijaya Dirgantara Boeing 737-200 between Sentani International Airport, in Papua, and Wamena Airport. On 18 December 2021, the Boeing 737-200 took off from Sentani International Airport at 08:31 (UTC) and shortly after the aircraft reached rotation speed for takeoff, a bang was heard and the aircraft experienced strong vibration. At 09:03 (UTC), the aircraft landed safely at Sentani. After the aircraft parked, the engineer checked the right engine and discovered that the engine was severely damaged. All 2 occupants on board survived.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Boeing 737-200 prefixo PK-JRW em 2021” (revision 65331986, 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
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Acidente do Boeing 737-200 prefixo PK-JRW em 2021
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 65331986 · 2023-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q111917658
- 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
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Boeing 737-200 prefixo PK-JRW em 2021" (page 6830899, revision 65331986), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A Boeing 737 cargo flight run by a cargo operator between Sentani and Wamena: an airline cargo flight. The article: "an unscheduled cargo flight operated by a Jayawijaya Dirgantara Boeing 737-200"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Portuguese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.