Trans Air PNG Cessna 550 CITATION I accident
Cessna 550 CITATION I · Accident: landing area overshoot
From Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM) to Misima Island Airport (MIS)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR10WA443
- 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
- 4 · 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
Cessna 550 CITATION I
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 550
- 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
- PA-TAA
- Operator
- Trans Air PNG
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM), Port MoresbyTo Misima Island Airport (MIS), Bugoiya
- 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 · landing roll
- 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 area overshoot
- 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 as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On August 31, 2010, about 0630 UTC (coordinated universal time), a Papua New Guinea (PNG) registered Cessna 550, PA-TAA, was substantially damaged following an overrun and post-crash fire after landing at the Misima Airport (MIS), Bugoiya, Papua, New Guinea. The airline transport pilot and three passengers were killed, and the copilot sustained minor injuries. The flight had departed the Port Moresby Airport, Port Moresby, PNG, at about 0500, and was destined for MIS.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Papua New Guinea. This report is for information purposes only. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Department of Transport Air Transport Division Enga Haus 1, Ground Floor, 7 Mile P.O. Box 1489 Port Moresby, NCD Papua New Guinea Tel: +675-325-7500
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR10WA443
- Event ID
- 20100901X11325
- Case number
- WPR10WA443
- 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: f28e38e50a6b33efe89f9feec3dfcd253ac212800253d77b2e4c5d95533ecc6a; retrieved 2026-09-13T21:02:09.866Z.