# NTSB CHI83IA091: Gates Learjet 24, N300LB, Cleveland, OH, January 26, 1983

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report
- Date: January 26, 1983, 05:25 local (10:25 UTC)
- Place: Cleveland, OH
- Coordinates: 41.440441, -81.740043 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4404&lon=-81.7400&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 3 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 12041
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CHI83IA091
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/12041/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI83IA091

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction, landing - roll
  - nosewheel steering - not corrected, company maintenance personnel (contributing factor)
  - miscellaneous - premature, pilot in command (contributing factor)

## Analysis

THE NOSEWHEEL STEERING MECHANISM WAS ACTIVATED AT TOO HIGH ASPEED AFTER TOUCHDOWN CAUSING A LOSS OF CONTROL. THERE WERE PRIOR INSTANCES OF STEERING PROBLEMS WHICH WERE NOT DOCUMENTED IN MAINTENACE RECORDS & THE PLT WAS NOT AWARE THAT THEY EXISTED.

## Aircraft

- Registration: N300LB (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: GATES LEARJET 24
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 149
- Airframe hours: 6976
- Engines: GE CJ610-4 2850 lbs thrust turbo jet
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Part 135
- Operator: Epps Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner: Jet Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Last inspection: Unknown, November 30, 1982, 70 hours before
- Departed: MDW, CHICAGO, IL
- Flight plan: IFR
- Airport: BKL, Burke Lakefront, runway 6, 6,198 × 150 ft, asphalt

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 39; airline transport; airplane ratings: multi-engine land, single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 1, valid medical--no waivers/lim.; seat: left; flight hours: 11,000 total, 2,000 in this make and model, 3 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Dawn
- Wind: 10° at 5 knots
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: 2,500 ft overcast
- Temperature: 27 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Observed at: CLE, 10 nm away

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Incident 19830126001379I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19830126001379I), Jan 26, 1983: Lear 24, Cleveland, OH, Minor damage. Aircraft veered off the runway on rollout and struck a guard rail. Cause undetermined. Prior steering problems.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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