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Avro 146 incident near Darlot, Au, January 20, 2017

On January 20, 2017 at about 7:35 am local time, a Avro 146, registered UNK, suffered minor damage in an incident during landing near Darlot. No one was hurt; 2 people were on board or involved.

The NTSB's probable cause their words, unchanged

The NTSB has not yet published a probable cause for this incident. Investigations usually take one to two years; this page updates when the final report is released.

Source: NTSB aviation accident database, copy made October 5, 2026. Docket and reports at the NTSB.

What the record shows

Date
January 20, 2017 · about 7:35 am local time
Place
Darlot, Australia
Type
Incident
Injuries
No one was hurt; 2 people were on board or involved.
Weather
not recorded
Aircraft
Avro 146
Registration
UNK · no longer on the register
Damage
Minor damage
Flight
Flight

The NTSB's narrative preliminary · quoted from the NTSB record

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a AVRO RJ146 airplane equipped with Lycoming LF507 engines that occurred on January 20, 2017. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the ATSB's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacturer and Design of the engines.All investigative information will be released by the ATSB.

The complete narrative as the NTSB published it. The NTSB's docket holds the report as a PDF and any photographs, statements and other documents from the investigation.

The factual record from the NTSB's investigation tables, in plain English

What happened, in order

  1. Runway excursion during landing defining event

The aircraft

  • Landing gear: fixed

Weather at the time

  • Temperature: 0°F (-18°C), dew point 0°F (-18°C)

Injuries

FatalSeriousMinorNone
Flight crew2

Documents from the investigation the NTSB's docket: the evidence folder behind the report

The docket, the folder of records gathered during an investigation (maintenance records, photographs, witness statements, examinations), has not been read from the NTSB for this case yet; the list appears here once it has. Open the docket at the NTSB.

Other NTSB records under UNK the same tail number, which may have belonged to a different aircraft at the time

2025-07-19OPS25LA052 · incident near Minot, ND · no injuries
2021-07-31DCA21WA205 · incident near Perth, outside the U.S.
2021-05-07GAA21WA111 · accident near Estepona · destroyed · fatal
2019-12-05DCA20IA034 · incident near Los Angeles, CA · no injuries
2017-09-13DCA17WA198 · accident near Adelaide · serious injuries
2016-12-15OPS17IA008 · incident near San Francisco, CA
2016-12-12DCA17WA065 · incident near Adelaide · no injuries
2015-08-04DCA15WA174 · incident near Toronto
2014-04-29OPS14IA007 · incident near Powhatan, VA · minor damage · minor injuries
2009-08-05CEN09CA497 · accident near Abbeville, LA · substantial damage · serious injuries

Everything on this page comes from the NTSB's public records. The narrative, probable cause and findings are the NTSB's own words; the coded tables behind the report are written out in plain English, with pilots' ages, home towns and medical details left out. The documents and photographs are the NTSB's docket, shown as the NTSB released them. This site's own text never names anyone involved. A preliminary report can change; the final report usually follows one to two years later, and the page is refreshed when it does.