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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, flown using an Airbus A300B4 registered PK-GAI and operated by state-owned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia. On September 26, 1997, Flight 152, piloted by Hance Rahmowiyogo, 42, a pilot with over 20 years of flying experience at Garuda Indonesia and more than 12,000 flying hours, crashed into mountainous woodlands from Medan during low visibility caused by the 1997 Southeast Asian haze. All 234 passengers and crew were killed in the disaster. The crash site was in a ravine near the village of Buah Nabar in the Sibolangit district south of Medan. Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 remains the deadliest single-plane crash in Indonesia, and the deadliest aviation accident in 1997. ==Incident== At approximately 1pm,〔:id:Garuda Indonesia Penerbangan 152〕 air traffic controllers in Medan cleared flight 152 for an ILS approach into Runway 5 from its current 316 degree heading, and the crew was instructed to turn left heading 240 degrees to intercept the ILS beacon. 120 seconds prior to impact, the crew was asked to turn left further, to 215 degrees, and descend to 1500 feet, 500 feet below the approved altitude for the procedure. At 1.30pm, ATC directed the flight to turn right heading 045 to line up for arrival into runway 5, and asked the crew to report which direction the plane was travelling. Air traffic controllers then became confused as to which plane they were talking to, as Merpati Flight 152 was also in the area at the time. This confusion led to the controllers' failure to notice that the Garuda plane was flying dangerously low in a hilly area, and the pilots could not see the hills due to the 1997 Southeast Asian Haze. The crew confirmed they had initiated the right turn towards Runway 5 after they were asked to. Shortly after this, the pilots screamed "Allahu Akbar!" (translation: God is great), as the mountain in front came into view. Seconds later, the plane slammed into the mountainous woodlands about 1,150 feet high, near the village of Pancur Batu, breaking apart and bursting into flames, killing all 234 passengers and crew on board instantly. According to eyewitnesses, flight 152 hit the mountain on a heading of approximately 220 degrees, with its left wing low, supporting the theory that the pilots had in fact not deviated from their assigned route. About four minutes before the crash, there was some confusion by Medan ATC because two planes had the same flight number. Merpati Flight 152, which had the same flight number as Garuda Flight 152, was also on approach at that time. A transcript of the radio communications between the aircraft and Medan ATC shows confusion by the air traffic controller at Medan over which 152 is being spoken to. Then, after Garuda 152 was in radar range, air traffic control pulled it off what Garuda Indonesia pilots say is the normal landing approach, and told it to turn left at 2,000 feet, about 14 miles away. The directions brought the plane to a mountainous area requiring an altitude of at least 7,500 feet, the pilots say. Normally, the plane would descend to 2,000 feet at 6.6 miles. According to the transcript, the pilot asked for confirmation of the instructions and was told to go on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garuda Indonesia Flight 152」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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