CEN18RA397 · Cirrus SF50
Cirrus SF50 · Incident: fire/smoke (non-impact) during landing
From Mainz-Finthen Airfield (EDFZ) to Zürich Airport (LSZH)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN18RA397
- 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
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cirrus SF50
- Aircraft type
- Cirrus SF50
- 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
- N474CG
- Operator
- Aximos-Treuhand
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Mainz-Finthen Airfield (EDFZ), Mainz-FinthenTo Zürich Airport (LSZH), Zurich
- 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., Non-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
- 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 September 22, 2018, about 1615 UTC, a Cirrus Design Corporation SF50 VisionJet, N474CG, owned by Southern Aircraft Consultancy Incorporated Trustee, and operated I-FLY AG, c/o Aximos Treuhand AG, experienced an electrical fire in the air conditioning unit while landing at the Zurich-Kloten Airport (LSZH), Zurich, Switzerland. The two pilots and three passengers on board were not injured and the airplane sustained minor damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The foreign, non-scheduled cross-country flight originated at Mainz-Finthen Airport (EDFZ), Germany.This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Switzerland. Any further information regarding the investigation can be obtained from the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board at:
Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) Aeropole 1, CH-1530 Payerne Switzerland Telephone: +41 26 662 33 00 Facsimile: +41 26 662 33 01 E-mail: info@sust.admin.ch
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the STSB of Switzerland.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN18RA397
- Event ID
- 20181029X14552
- Case number
- CEN18RA397
- 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: d26af6ea54f3da1a4ec3200abec7a9c1823b48f2cf22760d451370d130c2b87b; retrieved 2026-09-16T08:23:54.812Z.