- Date
- September 20, 2016, 17:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place
- Cologne, Germany
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- D-CPSWSwearingen SA227
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 94503
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Sequence of events
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Factual narrative
On September 20, 2016, at 1725 UTC, a Fairchild Swearingen Corporation SA-227-AC Metroliner, German registration D-CPSW, owned and operated by BINAIR Aero, sustained minor damage when the airplane veered off the runway while landing at the Cologne/Bonn Airport, Cologne, Germany. The commercial pilot-in-command, and commercial co-pilot were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the cross country cargo flight that originated at Shopje, Macedonia. This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the German government. Any further information may be obtained from: German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation Bundesstelle Fur Flugenfalluntersuchung (BFU) Hermann-Blenk Strasse 16 38108 Braunschweig Germany Phone: +49 5 31 - 35 48 - 0 Telefax: +49 5 31 - 35 48 - 246 e-mail: ops@bfu-web.de web: www.bfu-web.de
Aircraft
- Registration
- D-CPSW
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA227 (AC)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AC 757 B
- Built
- 1990
- Engines
- Garret TPE 331, turbo propGarret TPE 331, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Operator
- BINAIR Aero
- Registered owner
- BINAIR Aero
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- LWSK · Skopje
- Destination
- EDDK · Cologne
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- EDDK · Cologne/Bonn, runway 24
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 120° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- EDDK, 1 nm away