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Air Alize Beech 200 accident

25 Apr 2010 · Nadi, Fiji

Beech 200 · Accident: landing gear not configured

From NWWN · New Caledonia to Nadi International Airport (NFFN)

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Event

NTSB case
WPR10WA265
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
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

Beech 200

Aircraft type
Beechcraft 200
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
F-OIAN
Operator
Air Alize
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From NWWN · New CaledoniaTo Nadi International Airport (NFFN), Nadi
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
Landing · flare/touchdown
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
Landing gear not configured
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 · Estimated position: the centre of Nadi, the place the record names. Not the accident site.

NTSB narrative

On April 25, 2010, at 1406 coordinated universal time, a Beech 200, French registry F-OIAN, landed with the gear retracted following an electrical system anomaly at the Nadia Airport, island of Fiji. The airplane was operated by Air Alize as an international passenger flight under the pertinent regulations of France. The airplane sustained substantial damage; however, neither the 2 pilots nor the 2 passengers onboard were injured.

The investigation is being conducted by the Bureau d'Enquetes et d' Analyses of France at the request of the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji. All inquiries for information should be directed to:

Bureau d'Enquetes et d' Analyses Zone Sud -- Batiment 153 200 rue de Paris Aeroport du Bourget 93352 Le Bourget Cedex France

Phone +33 1 49 92 72 00

www.bea.aero

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record WPR10WA265
Event ID
20100526X45943
Case number
WPR10WA265
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: c7c02aabfae09650026ff8fa6400fca20cae7d342e36f144785f3b3ffb3497c9; retrieved 2026-09-15T14:14:40.234Z.