Mandala Airlines Flight 091

Mandala Airlines Flight 091

PK-RIM, the aircraft involved in the crash 2 weeks before the disaster.
Accident summary
Date	5 September 2005 (2005-09-05)
Summary	Pilot error (failure to set flaps/slats properly)
Site	Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia 3°32′47″N 98°39′32″E / 3.5465°N 98.6589°E / 3.5465; 98.6589Coordinates: 3°32′47″N 98°39′32″E / 3.5465°N 98.6589°E / 3.5465; 98.6589
Passengers	112
Crew	5
Fatalities	149 (including 49 on ground)
Injuries (non-fatal)	43 (including 26 on ground)
Survivors	17
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-230 Adv
Operator	Mandala Airlines
Registration	PK-RIM
Flight origin	Polonia International Airport Medan, Indonesia
1st stopover	Soekarno-Hatta Int'l Airport Jakarta, Indonesia
2nd stopover	Adisumarmo International Airport Surakarta, Indonesia
3rd stopover	Adisucipto International Airport Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Last stopover	Juanda International Airport Surabaya, Indonesia
Destination	Ngurah Rai International Airport Denpasar, Indonesia

Mandala Airlines Flight 091 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that originated from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar via 4 Airports in Indonesia. On 5 September 2005 (10:15 a.m. UTC+7), the flight crashed into a heavily populated residential area seconds after taking off in Medan. There were 149 fatalities.

Dozens of houses and cars were destroyed, and 49 people perished on the ground. 17 passengers survived the accident, with 100 of those on board known to have died. Most of the survivors are thought to have been seated at the rear of the aircraft, though some have reportedly since died from their injuries. Most of the dead were Indonesian, although at least one Malaysian, Ti Teow Chuan from Sabah, was reported dead. Rizal Nurdin, the governor of North Sumatra at the time, and Raja Inal Siregar, the former governor, were among the dead.

Flight 091 is currently the third-deadliest aviation accident in Indonesia, after Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 and Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501. It was also the second deadliest air disaster in North Sumatra province, the deadliest civilian plane crash in Medan, and the deadliest airplane crash since the loss of West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 earlier that year. Consequently, it was also the deadliest air disaster involving all the Boeing 737-200 series.

3 passengers were Chinese and the rest were Indonesian. All five crew members, 95 of the 112 passengers, and 49 people on the ground were killed. 15 of the 17 surviving passengers were injured. Twenty-six people on the ground were seriously injured in the accident

A passenger named Rohadi Sitepu told Metro TV from hospital that he and five other people seated in the back of the plane in Row 20 had all survived. "There was the sound of an explosion in the front and there was fire and then the aircraft fell," he said. Rohadi said he escaped the blazing wreck by jumping through the torn fuselage and fleeing on foot as four large explosions erupted behind him.