| Date: | Thursday 14 February 1991 |
| Time: | 23:31 |
| Type: |  Boeing 737-282 Adv. |
| Owner/operator: | TAP Air Portugal |
| Registration: | CS-TEM |
| MSN: | 23043/972 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 93 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Funchal Airport (FNC) -
 Portugal
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Lisboa-Portela de Sacavém Airport (LIS/LPPT) |
| Funchal Airport (FNC/LPFU) |
The crew made a VOR/DME visual approach to runway 06 at Funchal Airport, Madeira, Portugal. The aircraft undershot the displaced threshold by 160 m. The left main gear collided with a small embankment and collapsed.
Wind was reported as 025° at 14 kt gusting at 23 kt. There may have been an orographic downdraft on short final.
Sources:
ICAO Adrep 3/91
RTP video
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