Tarakan – Long Apung

On January 26, 2008 at 09:36 AM, Tarakan – Long Apung experienced a crash involving Casa 212 Aviocar, operated by Dirgantara Air Service, with the event recorded near Long Apung North Kalimantan.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On 26 January 2008, a Casa 212-200 aircraft, registered PK-VSE, was being operated by PT. Dirgantara Air Service as a cargo charter flight from Tarakan Airport to Long Apung Airport. There were 3 persons on board; two pilots and one aircraft maintenance engineer/load master. The aircraft was certified as being airworthy prior to departure. The aircraft departed from Tarakan at 0011 UTC (08:11 local time), and the estimated time arrival at Long Apung was 0136. At 0411 the pilot of another aircraft received a distress signal and informed air traffic services at Tarakan. Searchers subsequently found the aircraft wreckage at an elevation of 2,766 feet, about 3.4 NM from Long Apung Airport. The coordinates of the accident site were 01° 39.483' S and 115° 00.265' E near Lidung Payau Village, Malinau, East Kalimantan. The accident site was on the left downwind leg of the runway 35 circuit.

Aircraft reference details include registration PK-VSE, MSN 412/92N, year of manufacture 1993.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 1.7067°, 114.9711°.