Garuda Indonesia Flight 892
| Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 | |
|---|---|
 An identical Convair CV-990 from Garuda Indonesia |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Engine failure due to incorrect fueling |
| place | Bilalpada, 20 miles north of Bombay-Santacruz Airport , India
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| date | May 28, 1968 |
| Fatalities | 29 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Fatalities on the ground | 1 |
| Injured on the ground | "several" |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Convair CV-990-30A-5
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| operator |
Garuda Indonesia
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| Mark |
PK-GJA
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| Departure airport |
Jakarta-Kemayoran Airport , Indonesia
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| 1. Stopover |
Bombay-Santacruz Airport , India
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| 2. Stopover |
Karachi Airport , Pakistan
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| 3. Stopover |
Cairo International Airport , Egypt
|
| 4. Stopover |
Rome Fiumicino Airport , Italy
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| Destination airport |
Amsterdam Airport , Netherlands
|
| Passengers | 15th |
| crew | 14th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On May 28, 1968 at 02:44 local time, a Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado "Pajajaran" (PK-GJA) of Garuda Indonesia , on which an international scheduled flight from Jakarta to Jakarta , crashed on Garuda Indonesia flight 892 Amsterdam, with stopovers in Bombay , Karachi , Cairo and Rome , fell to the ground shortly after taking off from Bombay-Santacruz Airport in an almost vertical attitude. All 29 people on board and one person on the ground were killed in the accident. It was the first fatal incident involving a Convair CV-990.
plane
The machine that crashed was a four year and four month old Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado. It was one of four machines of this type that were put into operation at Garuda Indonesia. A structurally identical machine acquired in September 1963 was the first jet aircraft that went into service with the airline. Only with the introduction of this type of aircraft were the first flights to Amsterdam and Frankfurt carried out from September 28, 1963.
The machine that crashed was delivered to Garuda Indonesia on January 24, 1964. The aircraft had the factory number 30-10-3 and had 131 seats. The CV-990 was registered with the aircraft registration PK-GJA and was given the baptismal name Pajajaran . The four-engine long-range - narrow-body aircraft was equipped with four Turbojettriebwerken type General Electric CJ-805-23B equipped.
Passengers, crew and flight plan
One was with the machine on the date line intercontinental flight from Jakarta-Kemayoran to Amsterdam Airport flown. Scheduled stops were at the airport Bombay Santa Cruz , the Karachi airport , the Cairo International Airport and the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport is provided. If there were several stopovers, the machine should be refueled, with the first refueling in Bombay.
There was a crew of 14 on board. On the flight section from Bombay to Karachi , the plane was not nearly fully utilized - only 15 passengers were seated in the Convair.
the accident
The first flight segment from Jakarta to Bombay was flown without any significant incidents. After the machine had been refueled at the airport Bombay Santa Cruz and the boarding was carried passengers, the machine rolled to the start, which was carried out at 02:40 local time.
During the initial climb, only four and a half minutes after take-off, all four engines of the machine failed. It came to a stall , the machine went into a vertical attitude to the ground. It hit the ground at high speed, causing a huge explosion. The machine had gone down near Bilalpada, a suburb of Bombay. Numerous houses in the village were destroyed and residents were injured by flying debris. One person was fatally injured.
root cause
During the aircraft accident investigation it turned out that the engines had failed because the wrong fuel was in the tanks. Instead of the kerosene required for jet engines , the aircraft at Bombay-Santacruz Airport was misfuelled with aviation fuel.
Web links
- Accident report CV-990 PK-GJA, Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 3, 2020.
- Crash of a Convair CV-990-30A-5 near Bombay: 30 killed in the B3A - Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives
- Operational history of the machine on planelogger.com
- Registration data of the machine on airport-data.com
- Picture of the original machine and a brief description of the incident on Flickr
- Hendri F. Isnaeni: Kecelakaan Pesawat Garuda di Mumbai India , historia.id (Indonesian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Garuda Indonesia flight plan, as of April 1, 1968 , timetableimages.com
