Icelandair Boeing 757 - 200 PCF incident
Boeing 757 - 200 PCF · Incident
From John F. Kennedy International Airport (KJFK) to Keflavik International Airport (BIKF)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG13WA023
- 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
- Unknown
Boeing 757 - 200 PCF
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 757
- 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
- TF-FIH
- Operator
- Icelandair
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From John F. Kennedy International Airport (KJFK), New York, NYTo Keflavik International Airport (BIKF), Keflavik
- 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
- Not recorded
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Keflavík, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On January 30, 2011, at 1012 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a Boeing 757-200, registration TF-FIH, a cargo conversion aircraft, had the main cargo door severely damaged by winds during cargo operations.
The Icelandic Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident. As the state of manufacture of the airplane, the NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of Annex 13 to the Convention on Civil Aviation to assist the Icelandic Transportation Safety Board.
All inquiries concerning this incident should be directed to the Icelandic Transportation Safety Board at:
Icelandic Transportation Safety Board Hus FBSR, Flugvallarvegi 101, Reykjavik Iceland
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG13WA023
- Event ID
- 20130425X31536
- Case number
- ENG13WA023
- 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: 4d3e1a5138e617a9293e8ae480ee1bcb06a2cc842fe8ef55eea3369c9faaa310; retrieved 2026-09-15T21:21:34.099Z.