According to Traficom‘s Jani Hottola, the plane’s last airworthiness check was done less than two weeks ago.
An airworthiness inspector authorized by Traficom had inspected Lope’s small plane in the plane crash less than two weeks before Wednesday’s tragedy.
– The last airworthiness inspection was carried out on October 3, 2024, says Traficom’s special expert Jani Hottola.
According to Hottola, the plane was brought to Finland in 2020. It had received the Finnish airworthiness certificate in May 2021.
– The machine model was the only one of its kind in Finland, Hottola says.
According to Lentopisti’s information, the plane had recently changed hands and was expected to go to Germany.
Hottola does not know if the plane was sold. He refuses to comment on the machine’s maintenance history.
This is what the accident scene looked like on Wednesday afternoon. Simo Päivärinta
Military training machine
Hottola confirms that the aircraft involved in the crash was a two-seater North American Aviation SNJ-3. It was manufactured in 1942.
– This is a military training machine originally designed for further training. It was used to train fighter pilots of the allied countries during the Second World War.
According to Hottola, 15,500 pieces of the machine model in question have been produced. About 900 of them are still in use.
Two people died in a plane crash in Lope on Wednesday afternoon. The authorities said at a press conference on Wednesday that the plane took off, fell down and caught fire. The exact reason is not yet known.
The police are investigating the matter as an air traffic accident and as an investigation into the cause of death.
The story was updated on 16.10. 20:09: The airworthiness inspection was performed by a person authorized by Traficom, not by the agency itself. Information corrected in the title and story.
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