Aerolift Philippines Flight 075
Beechcraft 1900C · EFTO leading to pilot error
From Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL) to Surigao Airport (SUG)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 25 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 4
- Occupants
- 21
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
Beechcraft 1900C
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 1900
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- RP-C314
- Operator
- Aerolift Philippines
- Onboard fatalities
- 21
- Route
- From Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)To Surigao Airport (SUG)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Aerolift Philippines Flight 075 was a scheduled domestic flight from Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Surigao Airport. On 18 May 1990, the Beechcraft 1900 operating the flight crashed just after takeoff, 1 km south of the airport, killing all 19 passengers and 2 crew, as well as a family of four on the ground. Flight 75 was the second fatal accident of a Beechcraft 1900 and remains the worst loss of life in a crash involving that model.
Accident
Flight 075 took off from Runway 13 at Manila's international airport just after 6:00 AM local time. During takeoff, the no. 2 engine failed. The airplane began turning to the right as the crew radioed that they were returning to the airport. With the undercarriage down and the flaps still in takeoff position, the airplane impacted a house in the suburban Paranaque neighborhood. All 21 aboard the plane died, and a family of four inside the house were killed. The four casualties on the ground were a Japanese-Filipino family, including two small daughters aged 1 and 4, who had been sleeping together in the bedroom of the house, which was the impact site of the plane.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
One witness reported seeing the plane's right engine spewing smoke immediately prior to the crash. Investigators said initial findings showed that the right engine of the Beechcraft aircraft failed, and that the plane never gained more than 400 ft altitude before plunging to the ground.
The probable cause of the accident was determined to be a failure to maintain adequate flying speed and altitude, due to the pilot's inability to properly perform specified emergency procedures following a malfunction of the right engine immediately after take-off. A contributing factor was a "material failure" of the engine.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Aerolift Philippines Flight 075
- Revision
- 1339298364 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q104776647
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Aerolift Philippines Flight 075" (page 66241860, revision 1339298364)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.