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| Date: | Wednesday 1 May 2019 |
| Time: | 11:15 |
| Type: |  Diamond DA42 Twin Star |
| Owner/operator: | International Aviation College |
| Registration: | 5N-BNH |
| MSN: | 42.010 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | Ilorin International Airport (ILR/DNIL), Ilorin, Kwara -
 Nigeria
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Ilorin Airport (ILR/DNIL) |
| Ilorin Airport (ILR/DNIL) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB Nigeria |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight was a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) test with two persons onboard, a Flight Instructor (FI) and a Student Pilot (SP). At the time of the accident, the flight instructor was flying and the student pilot was monitoring.
At about 09:13 h, 5N-BNH took off from runway 23, Ilorin International Airport to Sector One Charlie (1C) and reported established at 09:28 h.
Several manoeuvres were carried out including steep turn, stall in all configurations, emergency descent, one engine inoperative procedure etc. After two hours of flying at the training area, 5N-BNH was cleared back to the field for
RNAV, VOR hold and ILS Approach and missed approach exercises.
At 11:12 h, the aircraft 5N-BNH reported right downwind Runway 23, requesting full stop landing and was granted. The flight instructor did his pre-landing checks. At 11:15 h, the aircraft touched down with gears up on the runway centreline at a distance of 1,387 m from the threshold, veered right of the runway centerline and stopped 205 m from the touchdown point, 9 m to the right of the runway centreline.
Causal Factor:
The crew carried out the approach and landed with landing gears not extended.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://saharareporters.com/2019/05/02/aviation-college-plane-crash-lands-ilorin-investigation-bureau-called
https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/02/plane-crash-lands-ilorin/
Location
Images:
Photo: AIB Nigeria
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-May-2019 20:18 | gerard57 | Added |
| 02-May-2019 23:54 | Geno | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 03-May-2019 04:11 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, ] |
| 31-Jul-2020 11:32 | harro | Updated [Time, Cn, Departure airport, Narrative, Photo, Accident report, ] |
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