- Date
- November 5, 2020, 12:55 local (15:55 UTC)
- Place
- Mendoza, Argentina
- Injuries
- 13 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- LV-VDJFairchild 227
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear collapse
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 102273
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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.
Landing gear collapseAll aircraft: 1,787 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- LV-VDJ
- Reported as
- Fairchild 227
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Registered owner
- Private
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- SANU · San Juan
- Destination
- MDZ · Mendoza
- Airport
- MDZ · Aeropuerto de Mendoza
Weather
- Wind
- 160° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 6.21 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Observed at
- SAME
- METAR
- SAME 051600Z 16012KT CAVOK 23/M06 Q1019