Carpatair Flight 128
Saab 2000 · The aviation incident occurred on 28 February 2009 at 09:44 (GMT+2)
From Chişinău International Airport (RMO) to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport (TSR)
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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 51
- 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
- 0
- 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
Saab 2000
- Aircraft type
- Saab 2000
- 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
- Operator
- Carpatair
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Chişinău International Airport (RMO)To Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport (TSR)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The aviation incident occurred on 28 February 2009 at 09:44 (GMT+2). A Saab 2000 aircraft belonging to the company Carpatair made an emergency landing at the airport in Timișoara, because the nose wheel of the landing gear did not extend.
The incident resulted in no casualties, all 47 passengers and 4 crew members escaping alive.
Carpatair Flight 128 was operating on the route Chișinău, Moldova - Timișoara, Romania and, according to the flight schedule, it was due to land at 08:05. The aircraft circled over the city of Timișoara for more than an hour, passing twice in front of the control tower, with the traffic controllers confirming that the aircraft did not have its nose landing gear lowered. After burning off the fuel, the aircraft landed on the airport runway at 09:44, on a carpet of foam, to reduce the risk of a fire. Airport operations resumed around 12:00 (GMT+2).
Following the successful landing, the pilots Leonid Babivschi (47 years old) and Iurie Oleacov (37 years old) were decorated by Vladimir Voronin with the Order of Honour.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Romanian Wikipedia article “Zborul 128 al Carpatair” (revision 17690428, 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
Romanian Wikipedia article: Zborul 128 al Carpatair
- Article
- Zborul 128 al Carpatair
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 17690428 · 2026-04-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4355704
- 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
- ro Wikipedia article "Zborul 128 al Carpatair" (page 442632, revision 17690428), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Romanian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The Romanian article contradicts itself on the date: its text gives 28 February 2009 (as does Wikidata), its infobox (used here) 26 February 2009.