# NTSB CEN16WA396: Swearingen SA227, Cologne, Germany, September 20, 2016

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Foreign investigation
- Date: September 20, 2016, 17:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place: Cologne, Germany
- Coordinates: 50.865833, 7.142777
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=50.8658&lon=7.1428&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-flare/touchdown: Runway excursion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 94503
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN16WA396
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/94503/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN16WA396

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing-flare/touchdown: Runway excursion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 3,643 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300/sequence.md)

## 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 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: SWEARINGEN SA227 (AC)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: AC 757 B
- Year built: 1990
- Engines: Garret TPE 331 turbo prop; Garret 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

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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