We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
The twin engine aircraft was completing a night charter flight from Southend to Helsinki, carrying seven passengers and one pilot. On final approach to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport runway 22, the pilot elected to reduce the speed when the aircraft lost altitude, descended below the MDA, struck the ground and came to rest inverted in a snow covered field located about one km short of runway threshold. A passenger was seriously injured while seven other occupants were killed. Probable cause (official
Swearingen SA226T Merlin III · 7 fatalities