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    Four Injured in Aviation Fire in Papua, Pilot Fatality

    What: Associated Mission Aviation Pacific Aerospace 750XL en route from Jayapura to Okbibab.
    Where: Abmisibil Airport, Okbibab, Papua
    When: Dec 17, 2011
    Who: 5 aboard, 2 fatalities
    Why: The plane landed at Abmisibil Airport, and skidded into a ravine at the end of the runway.

    Pilot Arnold Burung did not survive. The injured, Jacob Uropmabin, Timothy Uropmabin, Ramli, and Rady (AKA Yakob Uropmabin,Timotius Uropmabin, Ramly and Radi) were hospitalized at Dian Harapan Hospital in Jayapura.

    Pacific Aerospace manufactures planes in New Zealand.