Garuda Indonesia Flight 150

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 person who was killed on the ground.

Garuda Indonesia Airways Flight 150
Garuda Indonesia Airways Fokker F28-1000 PK-GVS, sister ship of the accident aircraft
Accident
DateSeptember 24, 1975
SummaryCrashed on approach in poor weather
Sitenear Palembang, Indonesia
Total fatalities26 (25 on board, 1 on ground)
Total injuries36
Aircraft
Aircraft typeFokker F-28 Fellowship
OperatorGaruda Indonesia Airways
RegistrationPK-GVC
Flight originKemayoran Airport, Jakarta
DestinationSultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport, Palembang
Passengers57
Crew4
Fatalities25
Injuries36
Survivors36
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities1

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

An 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.

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