Accident · 1996-12-24
What the record says
- Event date
- 1996-12-24
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Learjet 35A (N388LS)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- AIRCRAFT CHARTER GROUP, INC. Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- AIRCRAFT CHARTER GROUP, INC. — On-demand air taxi (135) Operator Does Business As:
Probable cause
The captain's failure to maintain situational awareness, which resulted in the airplane being outside the confines of the instrument approach; and the crew's misinterpretation of a step-down fix passage, which resulted in an early descent into rising terrain. Factors included the captain's misreading of the instrument approach procedure, the crew's rushed and incomplete instrument approach briefing, their failure to use additional, available navigational aids, and their failure to account for the winds at altitude.
Source: NTSB case NYC97FA194Flight 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.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.