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Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra. It was flown using an Airbus A300B4 registered PK-GAI and operated Garuda Indonesia.

On September 26, 1997, Flight 152, piloted by Hance Rahmowiyogo, crashed into mountainous woodlands 30 miles (48 km) from Medan during low visibility caused by the 1997 Southeast Asian haze. All 234 passengers and crew were killed in the disaster. Rahmowiyogo, age 42, had over 20 years of flying experience at Garuda Indonesia and over 12,000 flying hours. The crash site was in a ravine near the village of Buah Nabar in the Sibolangit district south of Medan.

Flight 152 remains the deadliest single-plane crash in Indonesia, and the deadliest aviation accident in 1997.

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  • Flight path of Flight 152 with CVR transcript

    The flight path of Flight 152 with excerpts of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript

  • Wreckage of Flight 152 (1)

    A view of the crash site of Flight 152, which shows the obliterated aft fuselage of the aircraft

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Vuelo 152 de Garuda Indonesia para niños

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