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This is the story of Garuda indonesia flight 152. On the 26th of september 1997 a garuda indonesia airbus A300 was flying from Jakarta’s soekarno hatta international airport to Polonia airport in medan. Before the flight the flight crew reported to the briefing room, they went over the flight, including things like diversion airports. They were warned of the Medan VOR, A navigational beacon, it was overdue for maintenance and so the VOR should be used with an abundance of caution. They were also warned about the conditions at medan, it was smoky that day and the smoke could bring the visibility down to 400 meters or 1300 feet, the ILS approach at medan required twice that.

With the briefing done, the plane took off and was in the air, by 6:12 am UTC the plane was in contact with medan control and was requesting permission to descend down to 15,000 feet which medan control cleared them to do. When they were 43 nm from the Medan VOR the controllers asked them to descend down to 3000 feet and also to slow down to 220 knots so that another plane could take off.

Soon the plane was getting close to medan the controller came on the frequency, to help them intercept the ILS of runway 05. The controller said ““Merpati one five two you er .. turn left heading two four zero vectoring for intercept ILS runway zero five from the right side traffic now er.. Rolling” no reply came from flight 152, Without having heard from flight 152 the controller asked again “indonesia 152 do you read?” the radio crackled to life and flight 152 asked the controller to repeat the message. So heres what the crew had to do . They had to turn to 240 degrees, this was the start of a left turn and that left turn would put the airport on their right side. So a right turn would help them intercept the ILS and after that its just a matter of following the ILS all the way down to the runway.

After having confirmed that the airplane was clear of the mountains to the northwest, the crew turned to 215 degrees completing that left turn that we talked about before. Now that they were getting close to the airport they were asked to descend down to 2000 feet. As the plane passed through 3000 feet on its way down to 2000 feet the plane cut through the thick smoke that surrounded medan that day. The radio crackled to life, the controller wanted them to turn right to 046 degrees, that is to turn to the right to intercept the ILS system of runway 05. The pilots replied back with ““Turn right heading zero four zero Indonesia one five two check established”.
But the plane started a left turn, As the plane turned left in the haze, the first officer, reminded the captain to turn right. Confused, the crew asked the controller, the controller replied with “Turning right Sir”, the plane leveled its wings. The controller asked the crew if they were making a left turn or a right turn, the plane at this point was starting to turn right. At 6:31 am the controller asked flight 152 to continue turning right, this confused the crew, “Err...confirm turning left we are starting to turn right now”. The plane flew on through the haze, the first officer pointed out that they were well below their assigned altitude of 2000 feet, the pilots increased power and pitched the plane up, but the haze had been concealing a mountain, 5 seconds after the first officer commented about the altitude, the cvr picked up the sounds of the right wing starting to strike the trees, the plane crashed into a mountain. None of the 234 people on board survived.

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