- Date
- January 7, 2026, 12:29 local (06:59 UTC)
- Place
- Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka · Gregory Lake Water aerodrome,
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- 4R-CAECessna 208
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 202286
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.
Loss of control on groundAll aircraft: 4,585 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- 4R-CAE
- Reported as
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Operator
- Saffron Aviation Pvt Ltd
- Registered owner
- Saffron Aviation Pvt Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- VCBI · Negombo
- Destination
- Same as departure