Denpasar - Surabaya

On March 6, 1979 at 06:55 PM, Denpasar - Surabaya experienced a crash involving Fokker F28 Fellowship, operated by Garuda Indonesian Airways, with the event recorded near Mt Bromo East Java.

The flight was categorized as positioning and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The airplane departed Denpasar-Ngurah Rai Airport at 1829LT on a positioning flight to Surabaya, carrying a crew of four. Following a level off at FL165, the crew was cleared to start the descent to Surabaya-Juanda Airport and passed successively FL100 and FL60 when the airplane struck the slope of Mt Bromo (1,890 meters high) located about 33 km southwest of Probolinggo. The aircraft was destroyed upon impact and all four crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration PK-GVP, MSN 11094, year of manufacture 1975.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -7.9421°, 112.9530°.