- Date
- February 18, 2022, 12:52 local (17:52 UTC)
- Place
- Detroit, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68NHEmbraer Executive EMB-500
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20220218006529A
- Case key
- 104672
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s decision to land on the contaminated runway with previous reports of unfavorable braking action.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that after touchdown, he was unable to stop the airplane on the 5,092 ft runway due to snow and ice contamination. The airplane subsequently departed the end of the runway and impacted airport lighting equipment, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot stated that braking action was reported as 3/1/3, which corresponded to medium braking action for the initial 1/3 of the runway, poor braking action for the middle 1/3 of the runway, and medium braking action for the last 1/3 of the runway. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation and that he should have diverted to another airport with better runway conditions.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68NH
- Reported as
- Embraer Executive EMB-500
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 50000331
- Built
- 2014
- Airframe hours
- 1,003.3
- Engine
- Pratt and Whitney PW610F-A, 900 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Eclipse Transport LLC
- Registered owner
- Eclipse Transport LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · April 9, 2021
- Departed
- KBUY · Burlington, NC
- Destination
- KDET · Detroit, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DET · Coleman A Young Muni, runway 33, 5,092 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Data recorder
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 3, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,192 total · 200 in this make and model · 2,044 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- KDET, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KDET 181753Z 22007KT 10SM BKN029 M07/M13 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP463 T10671133 11067 21106 58011
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 4, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.