Advance Airlines Flight 4210
Accident site | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 21 February 1980 |
| Summary | Engine failure on take-off |
| Site | Sydney Airport, Australia 33°56′46″S 151°10′38″E / 33.94611°S 151.17722°E |
| Aircraft | |
| VH-AAV, the King Air 200 involved in the accident | |
| Aircraft type | Beechcraft King Air 200 |
| Operator | Advance Airlines |
| Call sign | ALPHA ALPHA VICTOR |
| Registration | VH-AAV |
| Flight origin | Sydney Airport, Australia |
| Destination | Temora, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupants | 13 |
| Passengers | 12 |
| Crew | 1 |
| Fatalities | 13 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Advance Airlines Flight 4210 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed at Sydney Airport on 21 February 1980, killing all 13 people on board the Advance Airlines Beech Beechcraft King Air 200. After taking off on runway 25 for a scheduled flight, the aircraft's left (port) engine failed, and the pilot requested an emergency landing on runway 34. The plane crashed into the seawall while attempting the emergency landing. The accident caused the greatest number of fatalities in a civil aircraft crash in Australia since MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750, a Vickers Viscount that crashed near Port Hedland in Western Australia on 31 December 1968 killing all 26 on board.