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| Date: | Sunday 5 January 1992 |
| Time: | 16:10 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain |
| Owner/operator: | Island Air Services |
| Registration: | 5H-IAS |
| MSN: | 31-7852064 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Shinyanga Airport, about 15 Km NE of Shinyanga, -
 Tanzania
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Wilson Airport, Nairobi (WIL/HKNW) |
| Shinyanga Airport (SHY/HTSY) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Ex-G-BMSV (from 11 June 1986). To Tanzania as 5H-IAS 14 November 1990. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5 January 1992: Aircraft landed left of the runway at Shinyanga Airport, Shinyaga, Tanzania, in poor visibility. Aircraft collided with edge marker. Nose wheel collapsed, propellers struck the runway.
Sources:
1. http://www.tcaa.go.tz/files/1980%20-%2098%20ACCIDENTS.pdf
2. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/5H-IAS.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 6 July 1994 | 5H-ZNZ | Air Zanzibar | 0 | Ziwandu | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Aug-2010 06:27 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 22-Aug-2010 06:28 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 28-Apr-2015 18:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 21-Jun-2015 21:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, ] |
| 29-Oct-2019 16:50 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
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