Garuda Indonesia Flight 150

Garuda Indonesia Airways Flight 150
Accident summary
Date	September 24, 1975
Summary	Crashed on approach in poor weather
Site	near Palembang, Indonesia
Passengers	57
Crew	4
Fatalities	26 (25 on board, 1 on ground)
Injuries (non-fatal)	36
Survivors	36
Aircraft type	Fokker F-28 Fellowship
Operator	Garuda Indonesia Airways
Flight origin	Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta
Destination	Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport, Palembang

Garuda Indonesia Airways Flight 150 was a scheduled Indonesian domestic passenger flight from Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta to Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport, Palembang. On September 24, 1975, Flight 150 crashed on approach due to poor weather and fog just 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) from the town of Palembang. The accident killed 25 out of 61 passengers and crew on board and an additional one-person who was killed on the ground.

Aircraft

The Fokker F-28 Fellowship registration PK-GVC was built in 1971 and had done over 1000 hours of flying time before the fatal accident.

The accident

Garuda Indonesia Airways Flight 150 took off from Kemayoran Airport on a short-haul flight to Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport with 61 passengers and crew on board. Less than 1 hour after take off, Flight 150 was cleared by the air traffic controllers at Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport to start their approach to land on runway 28. The flaps and landing gear were down as flight 150 was nearing the airport when fog started shadowing the town and the airport. Flight 150 entered the fog two minutes later. The tail end of the aircraft hit trees and crashed breaking it up into 2 parts. There was no fire when flight 150 crashed. The crash killed 25 people on board and 1 person on the ground. 36 passengers survived the crash and were taken to a local hospital.

Cause

A investigation into the crash found that the visual flight in weather conditions below minimums. Flight 150 was in a downwind leg as the aircraft was on approach to the airport in fog. It is unknown why the air traffic controller did not tell the pilots of flight 150 to execute a missed approach or why the pilots themselves didn't execute a missed approach.

External links

Accident description – Aviation Safety Network
Accident details – planecrashinfo.com

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