Nusantara B462 at Wamena on May 8th 2013, aircraft burns down during unloading
Last Update: May 9, 2013 / 13:33:22 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 8, 2013
Classification
Accident
Airline
Nusantara Air Charter
Departure
Jayapura, Indonesia
Destination
Wamena, Indonesia
Aircraft Registration
PK-JKC
Aircraft Type
BRITISH AEROSPACE BAe-146-200
ICAO Type Designator
B462
Wamena's police chief said, that a fuel drum fell from the aircraft spilling its contents onto the hot brakes of the aircraft and ignited resulting in a blaze that set the aircraft on fire, too.
An observer on the ground reported the fire broke out just before 11:48L (02:48Z) when a fuel drum dropped and ignited with the source of ignition unknown, two airport fire engines responded together, both with similiar tank capacity so that both engines needed to refill their supplies at about the same time, which needed quite some long time so that the fire flared up during those refills. By 12:14L the tail plane had already separated and was on the ground but the wings were still intact, at 12:26L a major explosion occurred probably because of the right hand wing separating releasing the content of its wing fuel tank, fire fighters managed to put the fire out at 12:50L.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 8, 2013
Classification
Accident
Airline
Nusantara Air Charter
Departure
Jayapura, Indonesia
Destination
Wamena, Indonesia
Aircraft Registration
PK-JKC
Aircraft Type
BRITISH AEROSPACE BAe-146-200
ICAO Type Designator
B462
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