Surabaya - Surabaya

On April 24, 1928 at 12:00 AM, Surabaya - Surabaya experienced a crash involving Dornier Do J Wal, operated by Royal Netherlands Navy - Marineluchtvaartdienst, with the event recorded near Madura Island East Java.

The flight was categorized as test and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 3 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 40.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew departed Morokrembangan (Surabaya harbour) on a test flight over the Java Sea. En route, the crew encountered technical problems with the elevators and attempted to ditch the aircraft that crashed in the sea off Madura Island. Three crew members were rescued and two others were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-6, MSN 74/1, year of manufacture 1928.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -7.0589°, 113.2839°.