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Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839
1997 aviation accident in Malaysia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839[1]: 4 was a scheduled flight from Labuan to Bandar Seri Begawan and Miri, operated by Merpati Intan on behalf of Royal Brunei Airlines.[2] On 6 September 1997, a Dornier 228, registered as 9M-MIA, conducting the flight crashed on approach to Miri, killing both crew members and all eight passengers on board.[1]: 6
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Crew
The pilot-in-command was 40-year-old Captain Mohammad Tarmizi Muda,[3] he was a former military pilot, and had a total of 3,947 flight hours, 783 were on the Dornier 228;[1]: 7 The pilot-monitoring was 29-year-old First Officer Wong Lein Yee,[3] with 1,120 total flight hours, he had 22 hours of experience on the Dornier 228.[1]: 7–8
Accident
Flight 839, a Dornier 228, departed from Brunei International Airport at 19:13 local time with eight passengers and two pilots on board for a short-haul flight to Miri Airport. The crew of Flight 839 requested clearance to land at the airport. Air traffic control cleared the flight for the final approach to Runway 2 at Miri Airport in Sarawak, Malaysia, but the flight crew did not radio back the control. At 19:42 whilst on approach to the runway, Flight 839 crashed into a slope at 500 metres (1,600 ft) in Lambir Hills National Park. The wreckage of the Dornier 228 was found at 07:10 the following morning.[4] According to Bernama, the crash was the second to occur in Miri, following an aviation accident on 3 September 1991 which killed 14 people, and was the sixth to occur in Malaysia in 1997.[5]
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