Contributor - Accidents and Regulations

Contributor - Accidents and Regulations

Gordon Gilbert

The NTSB today <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20130220X11432&amp;ntsbno=ERA13MA139&amp;akey=1">concluded its investigation</a> into the Feb. 20, 2013, attempted go-around crash of a Premier 390 that killed all five passengers and injured the pilot and copilot. The Safety Board said the pilot “failed to adhere to the airplane’s flight manual procedures for antiskid failure in flight and did not retract the lift dump immediately after making the decision to perform a go-around.” It also noted that the “pilot’s fatigue, due to acute sleep loss” contributed to the accident.”
Returning from a Part 91 business flight, the twinjet touched down about 8:05 p.m. on Runway 10 at Thomson-McDuffie County (Ga.) Airport, but did not slow as the pilot expected and, about seven seconds later, the pilot initiated a go-around. About nine more seconds passed before the aircraft collided with a 63-ft high utility pole about 1,835 feet from the departure end of the runway.
According to the checklist for an antiskid system failure, the flap configurations available are “up” or “flaps 10.” Either of these positions would have required a longer landing distance than the runway at Thomson-McDuffie provided. “As a result, the pilot should have sought landing at an alternate airport,” the NTSB said in its final report.

Pilot Blamed in 2013 Fatal Beech Premier 390 Crash

NTSB said the pilot failed to adhere to the “airplane’s flight manual procedures for antiskid failure in flight.”

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