- Date
- June 13, 2010, 09:00 local (09:00 UTC)
- Place
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Injuries
- 16 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- ZS-ZOCSwearingen SA226
- Defining event
- Landing: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 76326
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Factual narrative
On June 13, 2010 about 0900 UTC, ZS-ZOC, a Swearingen SA226 Metro 11, an unscheduled commercial domestic flight, operated African Skies Aviation, was involved in a wheels up landing at Lanseria Aerodrome (FALA), Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2 crewmembers and 14 passengers were not injured. The airplane was substantially damaged and there was no fire. The domestic flight was originally destined for Polokwane Aerodrome in Limpopo where during the approach, the left main gear failed to extend and the crew elected to return to FALA to execute a wheels up landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- ZS-ZOC
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA226 (TC)
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- African Aviation Skies
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal