# NTSB DCA11RA025: Swearingen SA227, Cork, Ireland, February 10, 2011

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Foreign investigation
- Date: February 10, 2011, 09:50 local (09:50 UTC)
- Place: Cork, Ireland
- Location: 51.8413° N, 8.4911° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Cork International Airport (EICK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=51.8413&lon=-8.4911&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach-IFR final approach: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 6 fatal, 6 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 78324
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA11RA025
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/78324/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA11RA025

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach-IFR final approach: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md)

## Factual narrative

On February 10, 2010, at 0950 local time, a Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner, Spanish registration EC-ITP, operated by Flightline/Manx2 Air as flight 7100, crashed after attempting a landing on runway 17 at the Cork Airport, Cork, Ireland. The flight was a scheduled passenger flight from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The two pilots and four of the ten passengers were fatally injured, six of the ten passengers were seriously injured. The airplane was destroyed. The accident is being investigated by the Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) of Ireland. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative as the state of design and manufacture of the airplane and engines. All inquiries concerning this accident should be directed to the AAIU of Ireland at: Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) Department of Transport 44 Kildare Street Dublin 2 Ireland Website: http://www.aaiu.ie

## Aircraft

- Registration: EC-ITP (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: SWEARINGEN SA227 (BC)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: BC-789B
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Flightline
- Departed: Belfast
- Destination: EICK, Cork
- Flight plan: IFR
- Airport: EICK, Cork, runway 17

## Weather

- Conditions: Instrument (IMC)

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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