The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas.
The Metro is a low wing, twin turboprop, small airliner with a retractable undercarriage
A Metro II converted for cargo with a large freight door on the left side at the rear.
The Garrett TPE331 installation
A purpose-built SA227-AT Expediter freighter without cabin windows
On the evening of Friday, February 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493, a Boeing 737-300, collided with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop aircraft, upon landing at Los A
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
…in IFR conditions. The aircraft was destroyed by the impact and a post-crash fire. All seven occupants were killed in the crash. On February 1, 1991, SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, operated with a Metro III, was waiting on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport when USAir Flight 1493 collided with it, resulting in the death…
Aerial view of the crash site
N388US, the Boeing 737-3B7 involved in the collision, seen in 1990
N683AV, the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner involved in the collision, seen in 1988
The wreckage of Flight 1493