IAI Arava 201 crash, Jan 9, 2001, Palacios
IAI Arava 201 accident on January 9, 2001 near Palacios, Gracias a Dios, Honduras with no fatalities. Cause: Landing too far down the runway with a...
- Date: January 9, 2001
- Aircraft: IAI Arava 201
- Location: Palacios, Gracias a Dios, Honduras
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Landing too far down the runway with a tailwind component, leaving insufficient distance to stop.
A Honduran Air Force Arava landed about halfway down the runway at Palacios with a 13-knot tailwind. It could not stop in the remaining distance and overran the runway end, losing its starboard main gear and both wing struts. Both pilots escaped uninjured.