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| Date: | Thursday 21 October 2021 |
| Time: | 18:53 |
| Type: |  Cessna 510 Citation Mustang |
| Owner/operator: | Avia Aviation |
| Registration: | VH-MSU |
| MSN: | 510-0300 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Temora Aerodrome, NSW -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Sunshine Coast Airport, QLD (MCY/YBSU) |
| Melbourne-Essendon Airport, VIC (MEB/YMEN) | |
| Investigating agency: | ATSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The ATSB has commenced a transport safety investigation into a landing on closed runway involving Cessna 510 Citation Mustang, VH-MSU at Temora Aerodrome, New South Wales, on 21 October 2021.
During a flight from Sunshine Coast Airport, Queensland, to Essendon Airport, Victoria, the pilot of VH-MSU decided to stop at Temora Aerodrome to refuel using runway 18. On touchdown at Temora Aerodrome, at about 18:57 local time, the pilot noticed cones across the runway a long distance from the threshold. They elected to continue the landing on the closed runway after judging that there was sufficient runway to stop safely before the cones.
Contributing factors
• During pre-flight planning, the pilot regarded information about a closed runway to be irrelevant and did not review the available information when the plan was changed during flight.
• The pilot did not see the unserviceability markings or markers that were on the runway prior to touchdown, leading to a landing on a closed runway.
• The pilot elected to continue the landing after seeing unserviceability markers on the closed runway.
• The runway was not marked in accordance with the Part 139 Manual of Standards to communicate that the runway was closed for take-off and landing
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2021/aair/ao-2021-045/
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Nov-2021 10:35 | harro | Added |
| 27-May-2022 16:06 | harro | Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Nature, Narrative, Category, Accident report, ] |
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