Qualla: Trigana Air Flight 267 https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/5/u/trigana-air-flight-267-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Trigana Air Flight 267 https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267 Trigana Air Flight 267: Introduction https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267/ Photo credit Rudyologist, CC BY-SA 4.0. The weather was good. That was the strange thing. When Trigana Air Flight 267 lifted off from Sentani Airport in Jayapura at 14:22 on 16 August 2015, the afternoon was clear across most of Papua, the visibility was serviceable, and another crew landing at the destination had just radioed back to say the conditions were fine. The ATR 42-300 turboprop held 49 passengers and 5 crew. Among them were four postal workers carrying 6.5 billion rupiah in cash to distribute under President Joko Widodo's anti-poverty program, government officials flying in for the 70th anniversary of Indonesian independence, three children, and two infants. Thirty-three minutes into what should have been a 42-minute flight, the aircraft disappeared.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/5/u/trigana-air-flight-267-wp/rp5u-trigana-air-flight-267-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Trigana Air Flight 267: The Country It Was Flying Into https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267/ Photo credit Rudyologist, CC BY-SA 4.0. Oksibil sits in the Bintang Mountains of Papua's far eastern highlands, in a country so remote that BASARNAS, Indonesia's search and rescue agency, would later say the terrain around the crash site had never been previously explored on foot. Ridges rise to above 8,000 feet; valle...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/5/u/trigana-air-flight-267-wp/rp5u-trigana-air-flight-267-the-country-it-was-flying-into.mp3 0:06 2 full Trigana Air Flight 267: Ten Minutes from Touchdown https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267/ Photo credit Rudyologist, CC BY-SA 4.0. At about 14:55, on what should have been the final descent into Oksibil, the ATR 42 lost contact with air traffic control. No distress call was made. The crew gave no indication of trouble. At 15:30, BASARNAS launched a search aircraft, but closing weather grounded the effort wit...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/5/u/trigana-air-flight-267-wp/rp5u-trigana-air-flight-267-ten-minutes-from-touchdown.mp3 0:06 3 full Trigana Air Flight 267: A Recovery on Foot https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267/ Photo credit Rudyologist, CC BY-SA 4.0. The altitude was too high and the terrain too steep for rescue helicopters to lift wreckage or bodies directly. BASARNAS deployed 250 personnel to Oksibil, and recovery teams had to reach the wreckage either in a three-day walk from the nearest access road or a six-hour drive fol...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/5/u/trigana-air-flight-267-wp/rp5u-trigana-air-flight-267-a-recovery-on-foot.mp3 0:06 4 full Trigana Air Flight 267: The Right Turn That Shouldn't Have Happened https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267/ Photo credit Rudyologist, CC BY-SA 4.0. The flight data recorder had been malfunctioning for more than a year. Trigana had kept the aircraft in service anyway. With the FDR inoperative, investigators from the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee had to reconstruct the flight path from cockpit voice recor...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/5/u/trigana-air-flight-267-wp/rp5u-trigana-air-flight-267-the-right-turn-that-shouldnt-have-happened.mp3 0:06 5 full Trigana Air Flight 267: The Mess Afterward https://qualla.com/trigana-air-flight-267/ Photo credit Rudyologist, CC BY-SA 4.0. Trigana's passenger manifest, released to the public, turned out to be from a different flight. The chairman of Sentani Airport was fired. Sixteen airport staff were investigated; two Trigana employees were taken into custody. Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan called the situatio...

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