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TNT Airways Flight 325

15 Jun 2006 · Birmingham International Airport

ASL Airlines Belgium Boeing 737 · Emergency landing

From Liège Airport (LGG) to London Stansted Airport (STN)

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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
Occurrence
Event fatalities
Unknown
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
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

Boeing 737

Aircraft type
Boeing 737
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
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Liège Airport (LGG)To London Stansted Airport (STN)

Cause areas

  • Environmental issues › Operating environment
  • Personnel issues › Task performance
  • Personnel issues › Action/decision
  • Personnel issues › Psychological
  • Personnel issues › Miscellaneous

From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.

Approximate · Estimated position: Birmingham Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.

From the Wikipedia article

TNT Airways flight 325 departed on 15 June 2006 from Liège Airport for a cargo flight to London Stansted. After a failed landing at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, the right-hand part of the landing gear broke off and an emergency landing eventually had to be made at Birmingham International Airport. There were no injuries.

Investigation and cause

Investigation

Flight 325 was investigated by the British Air Accidents Investigation Branche (AAIB). The investigation identified multiple causes.

It was inappropriate for air traffic control to still pass a message to the pilots at such an advanced stage of the landing.

The pilot should not have disengaged the autopilot.

The pilot should have made a go-around immediately after the autopilot was disengaged, and not only when he saw that he had deviated.

There was confusion after the pilot had accidentally disengaged the autopilot.

The co-pilot should have proposed making a go-around earlier.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Dutch Wikipedia article “TNT Airways-vlucht 325” (revision 69873928, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Dutch Wikipedia article: TNT Airways-vlucht 325
Article
TNT Airways-vlucht 325
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
69873928 · 2025-09-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q2182040
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
nl Wikipedia article "TNT Airways-vlucht 325" (page 2130171, revision 69873928), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
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
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Dutch Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.