AO-2025-002 Beechcraft 1900D, Unity Oil Field Airport, South Sudan, 29 January, 2025

TAIC has opened an overseas assistance inquiry to support Singapore’s Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB), which itself is assisting the Republic of South Sudan. The accident under investigation is the fatal crash of a Beechcraft 1900D aircraft on 29 January, 2025, after take-off from Unity Oil Field Airport in South Sudan. Twenty people died. TAIC is assisting in recovery of records from Air New Zealand, which owned the aircraft from 2002 to 2016. 

Background 

The Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) is a department within the Ministry of Transport of the Government of Singapore. Singapore requested New Zealand's help in their assistance of the Republic of South Sudan’s investigation. TAIC’s assistance occurs under Section 8(2)(e) of the Transport Accident Investigation Commission Act 1990, which authorises the Commission to "cooperate and coordinate with other accident investigation organisations overseas, including taking evidence on their behalf." For an overseas assistance inquiry, TAIC does not produce a report; that would be for the South Sudan authorities, should they choose to do so.