Accident · 2003-07-22

What the record says

Event date

2003-07-22

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

Hawker T Mk 7A (NUNREG)

Operating rule

Part 91

Operator

operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

The pilot's failure to abort the takeoff, after the engine experienced a partial power loss for undetermined reasons. Factors were the pilot's improper preflight planning by his failure to determine if the airplane was airworthy, and the operators inadequate maintenance on the airplane, the use of non-certificated mechanics to perform the work on the airplane, and his failure to ensure the airplane met the minimum standards necessary for flight.

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.