O'Connor Airlines British Aerospace Jetstream 3200 incident
British Aerospace Jetstream 3200 · Incident
From Adelaide to an unrecorded destination
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's registration. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG06WA008
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Not recorded
British Aerospace Jetstream 3200
- Aircraft type
- British Aerospace JETSTREAM 3200
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- Unknown Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- O'Connor Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From AdelaideTo 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
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- 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
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe 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
- Not recorded
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Adelaide, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On December 23, 2005, a British Aerospace Jetstream 3200, registered in Australia as VH-OAE, experienced a loss of power from the right-hand engine, a Honeywell TPE331-12UHR-702H turbopropeller, during cruise flight near Adelaide, Australia. The pilots reported the right engine's torque indications began to fluctuate and the engine then shut down. The pilots made several unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine. The airplane then made an uneventful single-engine landing.
The investigation of this incident is under the jusisdiction of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. This report is for information purposes only and contains information that was released by or obtained from the Government of Australia. Further information may be obtained from:
Australian Transport Safety Bureau 15 Mort Street, Canberra City ACT2601 Post Office Box 967, Civic Square ACT 2806, Austrailia
Telephone (02) 6274 6141
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG06WA008
- Event ID
- 20080506X00603
- Case number
- ENG06WA008
- 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: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: eb57a2d42fdf452896c6d970450130ed3ca9afe2ab752671a341d789d6db1c7c; retrieved 2026-09-18T14:56:30.138Z.