Disappeared Flight Found Crashed Into the Side of a Mountain

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

While on a visual approach, Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42 turboprop with 54 people on board, contacts air traffic control and disappears into a cloud. Repeated calls to the aircraft go unanswered. A pilot departing Oksibil reports seeing smoke on a nearby mountainside. The plane has impacted a mountain, killing all on board. Why would a relatively modern plane with a qualified crew and safety equipment collide with a mountain? Find out what happened on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by Native to http://nativedeo.com/blackboxdown or use promo code blackboxdown at checkout for 20% off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Zeath production.
0:08.0	August 16, 2015.
0:10.0	Tragana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42 Turbo Prop with 54 people on board, is taken off from
0:16.6	Santani to Auxable in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua.
0:21.0	This is the fifth leg that the crew has flown today and the second leg from Santani to Auxable.
0:26.0	Auxable airport is nestled in a valley between mountains and can be tricky to fly into.
0:30.5	While on a visual approach, the plane contacts Air Traffic Control and disappears into a cloud.
0:35.0	Several minutes later, Air Traffic Control realizes they haven't heard from the Tragana flight
0:39.0	in a while.
0:40.0	Repeated calls to the aircraft go unanswered.
0:42.0	A pilot departing Auxable reports seeing smoke on a nearby mountain side.
0:47.0	The plane has impacted a mountain killing all on board.
0:50.0	Why would a relatively modern plane with a qualified crew and safety equipment collide with a mountain?
0:54.0	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
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