About 1502 c.d.t., on October 1, 1981, a Sky Train Air, Inc., Learjet 24, N44CJ, crashed 2.5 miles southwest of Felt, Oklahoma. The flightcrew and one passenger, the only occupants on board, were killed. At 1449:39, while in cruise flight at Flight Level 450, en route to McAllen, Texas, from Casper, Wyoming, the flightcrew made initial contact with the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center. About 1 minute later, the flightcrew failed to respond to a frequency change instruction and the aircraft's transponder beacon code was lost. The controller made several attempts to contact the aircraft but to no avail. Witnesses at Felt heard an aircraft overhead at a very high speed; one witness who saw the aircraft momentarily, stated it was in a descent angle of about 45 deg. before it struck the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was a loss of control, possibly initiated by an unexpected encounter with moderate to severe clear air turbulence, which caused the aircraft to depart the narrow flight envelope boundaries in which it was operating and from which recovery was not effected, the flightcrew's lack of adequate training and experience in the Learjet, and the aircraft's marginal controllability characteristics near and beyond the boundaries of its flight envelope.


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    Titel :

    Aircraft Accident Report - Sky Train Air, Inc., Gates Learjet 24, N44CJ, Felt, Oklahoma, October 1, 1981


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1982


    Format / Umfang :

    60 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch