Flairjet Beech 400 A incident
Beech 400 A · Incident: pressurization/environmental system malfunction/failure en route
From Milano Linate Airport (LIML) to London Luton Airport (EGGW)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN18WA253
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Beech 400 A
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 400
- 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
- G-FXAR
- Operator
- Flairjet
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Milano Linate Airport (LIML), MilanTo London Luton Airport (EGGW), London
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Pressurization/environmental system malfunction/failure
- 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 Geneva, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On May 2, 2018, about 1035 Universal Coordinated Time, a Beech 400, United Kingdom registration G-FXAR, experienced a cabin depressurization event and landed without further incident at the Geneva International Airport (LSGG), Geneva, Switzerland. There were no injuries. The flight originated from the Milan Linate Airport (LIML), Milan, Italy, and the intended destination was the London Luton Airport (EGGW), London, United Kingdom.The Swiss Transportation Safety Board (STSB) is investigating the incident. As the state of manufacture of the airplane, the National Transportation Safety Board has designated a US accredited representative to assist the STSB in its investigation.
The incident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Swiss government. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board – Aviation Division. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board STSB
Aviation Division
Aéropôle 1
CH-3003 Bern
Tel. +41 58 466 33 00
Fax +41 58 466 33 01
info@sust.admin.ch
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN18WA253
- Event ID
- 20180705X90932
- Case number
- CEN18WA253
- 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: 6e1f983a01f3a52b62b5803f2a2ecf181fdae4628e67b45136b1ea9aa0e8aab9; retrieved 2026-09-16T07:45:27.780Z.