Garuda Indonesia Flight 152

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.

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152

PK-GAI, the aircraft involved in the accident, at Denpasar in 1988
Accident
Date	26 September 1997
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error, ATC error, and GPWS malfunction
Site	Near Pancur Batu, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia 03°20′28.2″N 98°34′26.6″E
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Airbus A300B4-220
Operator	Garuda Indonesia
IATA flight No.	GA152
ICAO flight No.	GIA152
Call sign	Indonesia 152
Registration	PK-GAI
Flight origin	Soekarno-Hatta Int'l Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia
Destination	Polonia Int'l Airport, Medan, Indonesia
Occupants	234
Passengers	222
Crew	12
Fatalities	234
Survivors	0

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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