E05/2021

Summary:

On Friday December 13, 2019, the aircraft of the Greek registry SX-BKZ type Fairchild, SA 227 (Metro III) of the company SWIFTAIR HELLAS departed from the airport “Macedonia” of Thessaloniki with destination Athens International Airport where it landed at 17:35 UTC on the runway 21R.

After landing, the aircraft started vacating the runway via high speed taxi link A6. During that shallow turn the nose wheel steering, without any action by the commander, it turned sharply to the left. The commander decided to immobilize the aircraft and the result was to the left main landing gear and nose gear to exit the taxi way on soft ground with the right main landing gear to remain on the taxi way.

The flight crew executed a normal shut down, informed ATC and evacuated the aircraft without injuries. There after the aircraft was towed to the parking bay F01.