Swearingen SA227 EC-ITP

Summary

On 10 February 2011 at about 09:50 local time, a Swearingen SA227 registered EC-ITP, operated by Flightline, was involved in an accident near Cork, Ireland. 12 people were on board and 6 died, 6 were seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

10 February 2011 at 09:50

Classification

Accident

Location

Cork, Ireland

Nearest airport

Cork (EICK)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Swearingen SA227

Registration

EC-ITP

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Flightline

Operating rule

Non-U.S., Commercial

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Belfast → Cork

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

NTSB number

DCA11RA025

6 people died.

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

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

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.