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Acrobatic Plane Crashes during Indonesian Airshow


What: Indonesian Aerosport Federation FFA AS/SA 202/18A3 Bravo
Where: Husein Sastranegara Int. Airport Bandung Indonesia
When: Sept 29, 2012, 11:40 a.m.
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: During the Bandung Air Show 2012 at Husein Sastranegara Int. Airport, a training aircraft crashed during a maneuver killing the pilot and co-pilot. After completing five maneuvers, the Bravo 202 aircraft was flying low when the pilots crashed, sending up a fireball.

The pilot was Air Vice Marshall (ret.) Nurman Lubis. The co-pilot was identified as Col. (ret.) Tonny Haryono. Their remains have been taken to Bandung’s Hasan Sadikin Hospital. The men were members of the Indonesian Aero Sport Federation, who owns the plane.

Lubis was an opthalmologist.

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