Niugini DH8B near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Dec 20th 2020, technical malfunction
Last Update: December 23, 2020 / 20:39:43 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 20, 2020
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Niugini
Departure
Sapporo, Japan
Destination
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Aircraft Registration
P2-PXI
Aircraft Type
De Havilland DHC-8-200 Dash 8
ICAO Type Designator
DH8B
Russian media report the aircraft is kept under guard, the two pilots, only occupants, were taken to a hotel.
Following repairs by Aurora the aircraft was able to depart on Dec 22nd 2020 again after 39 hours on the ground and has already reached its destination in Calgary,AB (Canada) via Fairbanks,AK (USA).
According to local sources there was an oil leak through a seal of the left hand propeller. The seal was replaced.
Air Niugini sold P2-PXI to Canada, the aircraft was on the positioning flights to Canada. The aircraft had not been flown about 15 months prior to starting the positioning flights from Papua New Guinea to Canada on Dec 18th 2020.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 20, 2020
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Niugini
Departure
Sapporo, Japan
Destination
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Aircraft Registration
P2-PXI
Aircraft Type
De Havilland DHC-8-200 Dash 8
ICAO Type Designator
DH8B
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