Accidents and Incidents
- April 22, 1974: Pan Am Flight 812, a Boeing 707, crashed into a mountain while preparing for final approach. All 107 passengers and crew were killed.
- 5 October 1978, Douglas C-47A PK-NDI of Merpati Nusantara Airlines caught fire whilst parked and was destroyed.
- February 16, 1998: China Airlines Flight 676 took off from Ngurah Rai. Upon approach to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan the aircraft crashed, All 196 passengers and crew were killed along with 6 people killed on the ground.
- March 12, 2009: Batavia Air serving the Surabaya-Kupang route had a minor engine problem. Ten passengers were injured after jumping out of the plane assuming that it was having engine trouble.
- The airport won a Zero Accident Award from the Department of Workforce & Transmigration for its Work Health and Hazard Prevention Program in the year 2008.
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“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)