Date:	Wednesday 1 April 1981
Time:
Type:	Cessna 402A
Owner/operator:	Talair
Registration:	P2-GKJ
MSN:	402A-0081
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Kuli Gap, Western Highlands -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Madang (MAG/AYMD)
Destination airport:	Mt Hagen (HGU/AYMH)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
On descent into Mt Hagen, which was blanketed by a layer of lifting fog, the pilot made an inaudible transmission before the aircraft crashed on the north side of the Kuli Gap, about 4 miles east of the airport. Pilot Christopher David Channell (32) and all 7 passengers died. Looters plundered the wreckage and stripped the bodies before the rescue party arrived.

World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
https://www.pprune.org/dg-p-reporting-points/384700-merged-apng-twin-otter-missing-10.html
New Straits Times 3 April 1981, p32,
PNG Post-Courier, 2 April 1981, p1,
PNG Post-Courier, 3 April 1981, p3,
PNG Post-Courier, 6 April 1981, p3,
PNG Post-Courier, 8 April 1981, p2,
PNG Post-Courier, 3 June 1981, p2,
Canberra Times, 3 April 1981, p7,
Balus III, page 161.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
02-Jun-2010 08:44	Petro	Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
07-Jan-2011 04:15	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Feb-2019 19:42	TB	Updated [Source, Narrative]
11-Jun-2022 06:03	Turbulator	Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Jun-2023 10:56	Ron Averes	Updated [[Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]]