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| Date: | Sunday 19 June 2016 |
| Time: | 14:26 |
| Type: |  Avro RJ100 |
| Owner/operator: | Swiss |
| Registration: | HB-IYT |
| MSN: | E3380 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2000 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming LF507-1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 91 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | 6 NM east of London City Airport (LCY) -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
| London City Airport (LCY/EGLC) | |
| Investigating agency: | SUST |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
The incident concerned a scheduled flight from Zurich (LSZH) to London City (EGLC) with flight number LX465 and radio call sign ‘Swiss Four Five Charlie’ with 87 passengers and 4 crew members on board. The pilot was the pilot flying (PF) and the co-pilot carried out the role of the pilot monitoring (PM).
After an uneventful flight, the aircraft was aligned to the position line of runway 27’s localiser in good visual meteorological conditions (VMC), when the PM, shortly before intercepting the glide path at 3000 ft AMSL and approximately 6 NM from the runway threshold, spotted a flying object. He assessed this to be a yellow-coloured drone that was crossing the flight path at the same altitude approximately 20 metres away. There was no radio message to Thames Radar control centre regarding the near collision.
The flight crew continued with the approach and the aircraft landed without incident.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www2.sust.admin.ch/pdfs/AV-berichte/HB-IYT_Art45_e.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 August 2003 | G-CFAD | British Airways CitiExpress | 0 | London-City Airport (LCY/EGLC) | |
sub |
| Tailstrike | ||||||
| 3 June 2015 | HB-IYT | 25 km NW of Bozen |  |
unk | ||
| 10 March 2016 | HB-IYT | Swiss International Air Lines | 0 | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |  |
unk |
| Engine failure | ||||||
| 21 July 2016 | HB-IYT | Flughafen Luxemburg (ELLX) | |
unk | ||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Dec-2016 17:52 | harro | Added |
| 23-Dec-2016 17:53 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
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