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Date:	Sunday 22 December 2024
Time:	10:30
Type:	Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander
Owner/operator:	North Coast Aviation
Registration:	P2-SAM
MSN:	2197
Year of manufacture:	1986
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	32 nm NE of Nadzab -    Papua New Guinea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Wasu Airport (WSU/AYWS)
Destination airport:	Lae-Nadzab Airport (LAE/AYNZ)
Investigating agency:	AIC PNG
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander, operated by North Coast Aviation collided with wooded terrain in the Sapmanga Valley, about 32 nm Northeast of Nadzab, Papua New Guinea.
The wreckage was located the following day, but no word yet on the fate of th five persons on board.

The aircraft departed Wasu Airstrip at 10:12 local time on a single pilot charter flight with four passengers on board, the passengers were staff of the Ministry of Housing among them was deputy Kobby Bomareo, en route to Nadzab, with an estimated arrival time of 10:47. The last radio contact made by the pilot was at 10:14, when the pilot was instructed by FIS to contact Nadzab Approach when at 15 miles from Nadzab.
At 10:30 a distress signal was received.
Tuesday morning 24th December bring the news that there are no survivors