Date:	Thursday 17 July 1997
Time:	11:55
Type:	Fokker F-27 Friendship 600
Owner/operator:	Sempati Air Transport
Registration:	PK-YPM
MSN:	10415
Year of manufacture:	1969
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Dart 532-7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 50
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Bandung -   Indonesia
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Bandung-Husein Sastranegara Airport (BDO/WICC)
Destination airport:	Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK/WIII)
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
The F-27, leased from Trigana Air Services, took off from Bandung at 11:46 West Indian Time for a flight to Jakarta. Shortly after takeoff the aircraft developed engine trouble; smoke was seen emitting from one of the engines. The crew tried to make an emergency landing at Sulaiman Airbase runway 13, but the aircraft clipped roofs and a wall of a housing complex and crashed into a muddy field. The F-27 (named "Jayapura") broke up and caught fire.
On May 14, 1996 PK-YPM was involved in a an accident when the no. 1 prop struck the right wing of a parked F-28 (PK-PJL) at Jakarta.

Bart Eissing
ICAO Adrep
Kompas
National Transportation Safety Committee

photo (c) Reinhard Schmidt, via Werner Fischdick; May 1997

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Jakarta-Kemayoran Airport (JKT); May 1980

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