2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash
Leiguflug Ísleifs Ottesen Cessna T210L Centurion II · Fuel exhaustion, pilot fatigue
From Vestmannaeyjar Airport, Iceland to Reykjavík Domestic Airport (RKV)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC00WA222
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 6 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- Occupants
- 6
- 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
- 3 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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 T210L Centurion II
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 210
- 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-GTI
- Operator
- Leiguflug Ísleifs Ottesen
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From Vestmannaeyjar Airport, IcelandTo Reykjavík Domestic Airport (RKV)
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Fluids/misc hardware
- Personnel issues › Physical
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Reykjavík, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash happened on 7 August 2000 when a Cessna T210L Centurion II aircraft, TF-GTI, operated by Leiguflug Ísleifs Ottesen with six people on board crashed into the sea in Skerjafjörður, just outside Reykjavík, Iceland.
Background
The plane was on a scheduled flight from Vestmannaeyjar Airport to Reykjavík Airport with passengers who had been attending the annual Þjóðhátíð, the largest national festival in Iceland. It was the 22nd flight of the day for the pilot.
Flight
The plane was about to touch the runway in Reykjavík when the pilot received an order from the control tower to abort as another plane was on the runway. The pilot then raised the flight and intended to make another circle. The aircraft had reached an altitude of about 500 feet when the engine lost power and stalled. Shortly after, the plane hit the sea in Skerjaförður, about 350 meters from land, broke apart and sank at a depth of about six meters with everyone on board. The plane rested on its left side, with the right wing sticking out of the sea. A nearby barge, owned by a diving company, arrived at the scene few minutes after the crash and within 30 minutes of the accident, divers recovered five of the six occupants from the wreckage and brought to shore.
Investigation and cause
Cause
In its report, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board concluded that the cause of the accident was that the plane ran out of fuel, with contributing factors being the pilots fatigue.
Text from the Wikipedia article “2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash” (revision 1352154108, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
Sources
Wikipedia article: 2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash
- Revision
- 1352154108 · 2026-05-02 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q65336417
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record NYC00WA222
- Event ID
- 20001212X21855
- Case number
- NYC00WA222
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash" (page 76013837, revision 1352154108); merged with NTSB case NYC00WA222 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record NYC00WA222: centre of the town the record names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record NYC00WA222
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A small operator flying fare-paying passengers in a Cessna 210 on a scheduled service: a commuter flight. The article: "The plane was on a scheduled flight from Vestmannaeyjar Airport to Reykjavík Airport with passengers"
- Fatalities
- Reviewed (2026-09-19): Report of the special investigation committee on the Skerjafjörður accident (Iceland, 2005), https://government.is/media/innanrikisraduneyti-media/media/Skyrsla/Skyrla_serstakrar_rannsoknarnefndar_um_Skerjafjardarslysid.pdf
- Ground fatalities
- Reviewed (2026-09-19): Report of the special investigation committee on the Skerjafjörður accident (Iceland, 2005), https://government.is/media/innanrikisraduneyti-media/media/Skyrsla/Skyrla_serstakrar_rannsoknarnefndar_um_Skerjafjardarslysid.pdf
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2000 Skerjafjörður plane crash" and NTSB case NYC00WA222, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Death toll settled: the NTSB record (NYC00WA222) gives 3 and the Wikipedia article 6; Report of the special investigation committee on the Skerjafjörður accident (Iceland, 2005) gives 6. The report says the pilot and 5 passengers died, so all 6 aboard. The NTSB's 3 is the early toll: 1 died at the scene and 2 shortly after reaching hospital. Another passenger died days later, and the last 2 died of their injuries within a year, probably beyond the 30-day fatal-injury window.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.