Created Tuesday, Jan 7th 2025 16:38Z, last updated Tuesday, Jan 7th 2025 16:38Z
An Air Caledonie Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A, flight TY-317 from Noumea to Ouvea (New Caledonia), suffered a tail strike on landing.
The French BEA, investigating the occurrence, reported the aircraft received unknown damage, there was at least one minor injury. The BEA stated the tail number of the aircraft involved was F-OZKN, however, according to ADS-B data the aircraft has not been near Ouvea all day (both local time and UTC), the aircraft had last been in Ouvea on Dec 17th 2024 and flew to Ouvea again on Dec 22nd 2024.
According to ADS-B data both flights to and from Ouvea (TY-307/308, later TY-317/318) were done by F-OZNO on Dec 19th 2024. F-OZNO performed the return flight TY-318 the same day on schedule, but then remained on the ground in Noumea for about 22.5 hours, then performed a flight TY-7201 from Noumea to Noumea and subsequently remained on the ground in Noumea for 3 days before returning to service.
