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This Airlines Papua New Guinea flight scheduled from Port Moresby, with a stop in Lae-Nazzab, to Mandang Airport in Papua New Guinea made a forced landing in the mountainous terrain near Gogol River in 2011. Of the 32 people on board, 28 perished in the crash.. Numerous malfunction occurred on the flight, including the pitot static system failure to record airspeed, the propellers went into overspeed, and the engines failed. The crash involved a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102, commonly referred to as Dash 8. As a result of the investigation and lawsuit, PNG grounded its entire fleet of the Dash 8s. Also, Transport Canada released an Airworthiness Directive requiring that the aircrafts be outfitted with a modification that would prevent such incidents in the future.
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