Executive Airlines CASA 212 incident
CASA 212 · Incident: airframe, component or system failure during landing
From Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (TJSJ) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA92IA141
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
CASA 212
- Aircraft type
- Casa 212
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N428CA
- Operator
- Executive Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (TJSJ), San Juan, PRTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Landing gear, nose gear assembly › Loose
- Landing gear, nose gear assembly › Vibration
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
THE CASA 212 DEPARTED SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, EN ROUTE TO MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO, ON A 14 CFR PART 135 SCHEDULED, DOMESTIC, PASSENGER, COMMUTER FLIGHT. VFR CONDITIONS PREVAILED AND A FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED. THE PROSPECTIVE CAPTAIN WAS FLYING THE AIRPLANE FROM THE LEFT SEAT WHILE RECEIVING AN INITIAL OPERATING EXPERIENCE CHECK RIDE FROM AN AUTHORIZED CHECK AIRMAN. DURING LANDING ROLLOUT AT THE DESTINATION AIRPORT, THE NOSEWHEEL DEVELOPED A HEAVY VIBRATION, AND THE AIRPLANE VEERED OFF THE RUNWAY TO THE RIGHT, COLLIDING WITH A SIGN. THE AIRPLANE SUSTAINED NO DAMAGE. THE FLIGHTCREW AND 16 PASSENGERS WERE NOT INJURED.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE NOSEGEAR ASSEMBLY STEERING ACTUATOR DUE TO PLAY AT THE LOWER TRUNNION, WHICH CAUSED A VIBRATION, FAILURE OF THE STEERING ACTUATOR, SUBSEQUENT ON GROUND LOSS OF CONTROL, AND ON-GROUND COLLISION WITH A SIGN DURING LANDING ROLLOUT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA92IA141
- Event ID
- 20001211X14930
- Case number
- MIA92IA141
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d6f3bf24f3b9bad294e06eb60be232c84b66e05b77d9d29bebeeef6cd9a454ee; retrieved 2026-09-18T18:46:07.973Z.