Isurava is a small town in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

, located on the Kokoda Track

Kokoda Track

The Kokoda Trail or Track is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs overland — in a straight line — through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea...

. It is the site of the Isurava Memorial.

On 11 August 2009 Airlines PNG Flight 4684

Airlines PNG Flight 4684

Airlines PNG Flight 4684 was a passenger flight which crashed near Kokoda Airport, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea on 11 August 2009, killing all eleven passengers and two crew....

 crashed into a mountain on the opposite side of the valley from Isurava, high above Misima village. It was attempting to go around at Kokoda Airport

Kokoda Airport

Kokoda Airport is an airport in Kokoda, Papua New Guinea . The airfield was a focal point of the intense battle along the famous Kokoda trail, during the second World War...

. All 13 passengers and crew died in the accident.