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An Indonesia Air ATR 42-500 with 10 occupants on board, operated for the Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance (PSDKP), impacted a mountainside while approaching Makassar-Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (UPG).
ATC gave vectors to the crew after noticing that the aircraft was not on the correct approach path.
The wreckage coordinates reported by the search and rescue agency Basarnas point to a 4327 feet high peak, 14 nm north-east of the threshold of runway 21 at Makassar. Minimum Sector Altitude in the area is 8500 feet.
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The black box (Cockpit Voice Recorder /CVR and the Flight Data Recorder /FDR) of the ATR 42-500 aircraft that crashed in the Mount Bulusaraung area, has been officially handed over to the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) of Indonesia.

The handover was done by the Head of the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), Marsdya TNI Mohammad Syafii, to KNKT Chairman Soerjanto Tjahjono at the Basarnas Makassar Office on Thursday (22/1/2026).

The results of the KNKT investigation are expected to be able to answer the public's major questions regarding the cause of the ATR 42-500 aircraft accident.

In the search and rescue operation, the joint SAR team has found nine bodies of victims of the crash of the ATR 42-500 PK-THT aircraft in the Mount Bulusaraung area, Pangkep Regency, South Sulawesi. One last body is still being sought.
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Pilots don’t use checklists because they lack experience.
They use them because experience alone is not enough.

Aviation understands that human memory can fail, especially under pressure. That’s why checklists exist: to reduce errors, standardize operations and ensure critical steps are never skipped.

They are used in normal, abnormal and emergency situations, and trained repeatedly in simulators until discipline becomes habit.

In aviation, skipping a checklist is not being efficient — it’s adding risk.

A good reminder beyond aviation:
reliable systems don’t rely on memory, they rely on processes.