Swearingen SA227 Metro III crash, Dec 15, 2006, Buenos Ai...
Swearingen SA227 Metro III accident on December 15, 2006 near Buenos Aires-Ezeiza-Ministro Pistarini, Buenos Aires City, Argentina with no fatalities....
- Date: December 15, 2006
- Aircraft: Swearingen SA227 Metro III
- Location: Buenos Aires-Ezeiza-Ministro Pistarini, Buenos Aires City, Argentina
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: Loss of control after rotation because the landing gear was retracted prematurely at low altitude and the climb gradient was low in the second segment. The captain had also switched off the stall warning before departure.
A Swearingen Metro III on a positioning flight from Ezeiza to Aeroparque lost control shortly after rotation. The gear was retracted at very low altitude after a weak climb, and the left wing stalled and struck the runway. The aircraft slid off the runway into a field, and both pilots were uninjured.