Qualla: Into the Mountain https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Into the Mountain https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash Into the Mountain: Introduction https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. At 1:37 in the afternoon on 17 January 2026, an ATR 42 turboprop made its last radio call. The aircraft was minutes from landing at Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport near Makassar, returning from a routine fisheries surveillance mission that had begun that morning in Yogyakarta. Then silence. Somewhere in the limestone towers of Mount Bulusaraung, amid one of the largest karst landscapes on Earth, the aircraft had struck terrain. All ten people aboard were killed.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/qxj5-into-the-mountain-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Into the Mountain: A Routine Mission https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The flight was not a commercial passenger service. Indonesia Air Transport was operating the ATR 42-512, registered as PK-THT, on behalf of the Directorate General of Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance - a government agency responsible for monitoring Indonesia's vast ter...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/qxj5-into-the-mountain-a-routine-mission.mp3 0:06 2 full Into the Mountain: The Mountain That Waited https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park sprawls across nearly 44,000 hectares of South Sulawesi, its terrain dominated by tower karst - sheer limestone pillars that rise abruptly from the forest floor. The Maros-Pangkep karst system contained within the park is the second largest o...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/qxj5-into-the-mountain-the-mountain-that-waited.mp3 0:06 3 full Into the Mountain: The Search https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. Local residents near the park reported an explosion and a column of smoke rising from the mountain around the time contact was lost. But the terrain that had claimed the aircraft also impeded the effort to find it. Adverse weather rolled in, shrouding the karst peaks in cloud and...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/qxj5-into-the-mountain-the-search.mp3 0:06 4 full Into the Mountain: Flight Context https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. Crash site located at approximately 4.95S, 119.72E on Mount Bulusaraung in Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park, Pangkajene and Islands Regency, South Sulawesi. Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (WAAA) lies roughly 20 km to the south - the aircraft's intended destination. The karst towers of the Maros-Pangkep system are visible from altitude as a dramatic ridge of white limestone peaks rising from green lowland forest. Terrain in this area rises sharply and unpredictably; minimum safe altitudes should be carefully observed on any approach from the north.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/qxj5-into-the-mountain-controlled-flight-into-terrain.mp3 0:06 5 full Into the Mountain: Flight Context https://qualla.com/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. Crash site located at approximately 4.95S, 119.72E on Mount Bulusaraung in Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park, Pangkajene and Islands Regency, South Sulawesi. Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (WAAA) lies roughly 20 km to the south - the aircraft's intended destination. The karst towers of the Maros-Pangkep system are visible from altitude as a dramatic ridge of white limestone peaks rising from green lowland forest. Terrain in this area rises sharply and unpredictably; minimum safe altitudes should be carefully observed on any approach from the north.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/x/j/5/2026-indonesia-air-transport-atr-42-crash-wp/qxj5-into-the-mountain-ten-lives-one-flight.mp3 0:06 6 full