Indonesia’s worst crashes

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Northern Sumatra:

The worst disaster in Indonesia’s aviation history left 234 dead in 1997. An Airbus A-300B4 operated by national carrier Garuda Indonesia crashed in North Sumatra, just short of Medan city’s airport.

In 2014, an AirAsia plane plunged into the Java Sea during stormy weather, killing 162 people. The Malaysian airline was flying from Surabaya to Singapore.

A Mandala Airlines domestic flight crashed shortly after take-off in 2005 into a densely populated suburb in Medan, killing at least 150.

Java Sea: Medan disaster: Military families:

In June 2015 an Indonesian military plane crashed shortly after take-off, also coming down in a residential area in Medan, killing around 122 people on board, many of them servicemen and women and their families. Around 20 people were also killed on the ground.

Air Force fire:

In 1991, an Air Force plane crashed in East Jakarta minutes after take off when an engine caught fire, killing 135 people.

In 1997, a Silk Air flight crashed into a river near the Indonesian city of Palembang while on its way to Singapore from Jakarta. All 104 passengers and crew were killed.

River crash: New Year’s Day crash: