Icaro Fokker F28-4000 accident
Fokker F28-4000 · Accident during takeoff
From SEQU · Quito to Francisco De Orellana Airport (SECO)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA08WA200
- 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
- Accident
- 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
- Airline
- 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
Fokker F28-4000
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F28
- 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
- HC-CDT
- Operator
- Icaro
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From SEQU · QuitoTo Francisco De Orellana Airport (SECO), Coca
- 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
- Takeoff · rejected takeoff
- 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
- Miscellaneous/other
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On September 22, 2008, about 1600 universal time, a Fokker F28-4000, HC-CDT, flight ICD-504, registered to and operated by Icaro Air, as a scheduled domestic passenger flight, aborted take off on runway 35 at Mariscal Surce Airport (SEQU), Quito, Ecuador. The flight crew reported a fire warning light in the forward baggage compartment on the takeoff roll. The airplane went off the end of the runway and collided with an instrument landing system antenna, perimeter fence, and perimeter wall before stopping near a road. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight plan was filed. The airplane received substantial damage. The airline transport rated pilot-in-command, first officer, and 1 flight attendant received serious injuries. One flight attendant and 62 passengers reported minor injuries. The flight originated from Quito at 1559, on September 22, 2008, and was en-route to Coca, Ecuador.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Ecuador. Any further information can be obtained from:
Direccion General de Aviacion Civil Buenos Aires 149 Y 10 de Agusto P.O. Box 2077 Quito, Republica del Ecuador
Phone: 593-2-223-8981 Fax; 593-2- 223-8352
This information is for informational purposes only, and contains information released by, or obtained for the Government of Ecuador.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA08WA200
- Event ID
- 20081003X42132
- Case number
- MIA08WA200
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: coordinates. 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: ea71ce8c91c34b47bd65fdbdf7d501229f35f48be77aae08190775f1486c95f3; retrieved 2026-09-15T10:20:44.685Z.