Mandala Airlines Flight 660 was a scheduled passenger flight on 24 July 1992 which crashed in Indonesia into a mountain on

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as it attempted to land at Pattimura Airport in a heavy thunderstorm. Pilot error and windshear were blamed for the crash. Cabin crew members were Purser Isnarti, Stewardesses Agus Sasetyo Diah Sistining Ari and Wiwik Prastiwi.

Aircraft

The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 816 serial number 434, which first flew on 8 June 1959.Roach/Eastwood 1990, p. 396 It was delivered on 17 June 1959 to Trans Australia Airlines and named ''

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'' after an Australian explorer. By 1974 it had been bought by Mandala Airlines with the registration PK-RVU and name ''Nias''.

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