IAI Westwind crash in Manila
Lionair IAI Westwind · Crew error, tyre failure
From Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, Philippines to Haneda International Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR20WA114
- 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
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 0 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
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
IAI Westwind
- Aircraft type
- Iai WESTWIND
- 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
- RP-C5880
- Operator
- Lionair
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, PhilippinesTo Haneda International Airport, Tokyo, Japan
- 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
- Takeoff · rejected takeoff
- 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
- Runway excursion
- 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
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Experience/knowledge
- Personnel issues › Psychological
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The IAI Westwind crash in Manila was an air disaster that occurred on 29 March 2020. An IAI 1124A Westwind II aircraft of the Philippine charter airline Lionair was operating an air ambulance flight to evacuate a seriously ill patient from Manila to Tokyo, with a final destination in Canada. During takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, a tyre on the right main landing gear failed, after which the pilots decided to abort the takeoff at a speed exceeding the calculated one. The aircraft ran off the runway, collided with a fence and caught fire. All 8 people on board were killed.
This crash became the deadliest in the history of IAI Westwind aircraft.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
After the crash the runway was closed and an investigation was opened. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines announced the possible suspension of Lionair's air operator certificate. This was the airline's second fatal crash in 7 months — in September 2019 another Lionair aircraft crashed, killing 9 people.
Airport staff reported that the crashed aircraft used a longer distance for its takeoff run than usual. The authorities also stated that the aircraft encountered an unidentified fire during the takeoff run.
The flight recorders (cockpit voice and flight data) were sent to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) in Canberra for analysis.
The commission's final report stated that the causes of the crash were:
The pilots' decision to abort the takeoff at a speed exceeding the calculated one (V₁);
Insufficient training of the pilots for actions in such a situation;
Haste due to a delay in submitting the flight plan;
Skipping the pre-flight checklist, which includes instructions for actions in the event of a failure near V₁.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа IAI Westwind в Маниле” (revision 155113134, 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
NTSB narrative
The government of the Philippines has notified the NTSB of an accident involving an Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A airplane that occurred on March 29, 2020. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of the Philippines's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of the Philippines.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа IAI Westwind в Маниле
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 155113134 · 2026-09-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q90994048
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record WPR20WA114
- Event ID
- 20200330X23118
- Case number
- WPR20WA114
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа IAI Westwind в Маниле" (page 11476355, revision 155113134), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case WPR20WA114 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record WPR20WA114: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
- 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 WPR20WA114
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "IAI Westwind crash in Manila" and NTSB case WPR20WA114, 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.