Date:	Wednesday 20 April 1983
Time:
Type:	Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
Owner/operator:	Tonga Air Services Ltd
Registration:	ZK-EKX
MSN:	27-7405465
Year of manufacture:	1974
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Fua'amotu Airport, Tongatapu -   Tonga
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Fua'amotu International Airport
Destination airport:	Fua'amotu International Airport
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Aircraft was on a flight from Nuku'alofa to Niuatoputapu Island when a warning indicated the nose wheel was not down and locked. The aircraft returned to Fua'amotu Airport, and an emergency landing was attempted. The nose wheel collapsed, a propellor hit the ground and the aircraft overturned. One passenger was killed, four others and the pilot were injured. The aircraft was written off.


Accident/incident investigated by TAIC NZ. Pilot: Grant Gordon Spence.

http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
Aviation Historical society of New Zealand: Journal Vol 26 No 3, 1983; Register Review No 26, 1983.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
11-Jan-2011 14:00	ASN archive
21-May-2018 06:20	Ron Averes	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
07-Dec-2021 03:38	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]