Swearingen SA226A N205MB

16 June 1980 · Birmingham, Alabama, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 16 June 1980 at about 19:11 local time, a Swearingen SA226A registered N205MB, operated by South Central, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Birmingham, Alabama, United States. 6 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 16 June 1980 at 19:11
Classification: Accident
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Nearest airport: Birmingham Muni
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Swearingen SA226A
Registration: N205MB
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: South Central
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: New Orleans, la → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2914

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
6	0	0	0	6

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

R MAIN GEAR DOOR UPLOCK ROLLER FAILED.DOOR JAMMED IN UP PSN.PLT RPRTD LNDG LONG TO STOP IN GRASS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2914, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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