Aerovias RJ1H at King George Island on Dec 3rd 2025, tail scrape on landing

Last Update: December 9, 2025 / 11:30:09 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 3, 2025

Classification
Incident

Airline
Aerovias DAP

Flight number
V5-940

Departure
Punta Arenas, Chile

Destination
King George Island, Chile

Aircraft Registration
CC-ARN

Aircraft Type
AVRO RJ-100 Avroliner

ICAO Type Designator
RJ1H

An Aerovias DAP Avro RJ-100, registration CC-ARN performing flight V5-940 from Punta Arenas to King George Island (Chile), landed on Antarctica's King George Airport's runway 11 when the tail of the aircraft contacted the runway surface. The aircraft rolled out without further incident.

A replacement RJ-100 registration CC-ATI was dispatched to King George Island, taking investigators of Chile's DGCA with it, and performed the return flight with a delay of about 10 hours.

The occurrence aircraft was able to position back to Punta Arenas about 31 hours after landing, remained on the ground in Punta Arenas for another 80 hours before returning to service.

Chile's DGCA reported investigators travelled to King George Island to investigate an incident by an aircraft of Aerovias DAP.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 3, 2025

Classification
Incident

Airline
Aerovias DAP

Flight number
V5-940

Departure
Punta Arenas, Chile

Destination
King George Island, Chile

Aircraft Registration
CC-ARN

Aircraft Type
AVRO RJ-100 Avroliner

ICAO Type Designator
RJ1H

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