- Date
- January 15, 2026
- Place
- Simberi, Papua New Guinea
- Injuries
- 14 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- P2-KSAATR ATR42
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Papua New Guinea AIC
- Case key
- 202670
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 area overshootAll aircraft: 400 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- P2-KSA
- Reported as
- ATR ATR42 (500)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 639
- Built
- 2005
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Hevilift Aviation
- Registered owner
- Hevilift Aviation