Finnish Commuter Airlines Oy Embraer EMB145 incident
Embraer EMB145 · Incident: fire/smoke (non-impact) while taxiing
From Helsinki Vantaa Airport (EFHK) to Kemi-Tornio Airport (EFKE)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR09WA249
- 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
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Embraer EMB145
- Aircraft type
- Embraer EMB145
- 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
- OH-EBE
- Operator
- Finnish Commuter Airlines Oy
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Helsinki Vantaa Airport (EFHK), Helsinki-VantaaTo Kemi-Tornio Airport (EFKE), Kemi-Tornio
- 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
- Taxi · from runway
- 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
- Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On December 11, 2008, at 2253 universal coordinated time, an Embraer EMB145, registration OH-EBE, sustained minor damage to the tailcone after the Auxillary Power Unit (APU) caught fire during taxi after landing at Kemi-Tornio Airport, Kemi, Finland. The airplane was being operated by Finnish Commuter Airlines Oy. The 2 pilots, 1 cabin crew member, and 22 passengers were not injured.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of, and is being investigated by, the Accident Investigation Board of Finland. This report is for information purposes only and contains information released by the Accident Investigation Board. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Accident Investigation Board Finland Sörnäisten rantatie 33 C FI-00500 Helsinki Finland
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR09WA249
- Event ID
- 20090519X40622
- Case number
- WPR09WA249
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 136694f437bde42e79e3341b1841e2383c7579bebe62acd71dbf4ca5b9ca6155; retrieved 2026-09-15T11:05:59.876Z.