- Date
- February 25, 2020, 23:56 local (Feb 26, 2020, 04:56 UTC)
- Place
- Farmingdale, NJ
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N135LRLearjet 55
- Defining event
- Landing: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 27, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 101002
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Probable cause
The flight crew's failure to stop the airplane on the available runway, which was wet and resulted in the airplane impacting a ditch.
Findings · 5
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 he and the copilot were conducting an instrument approach to the runway in a business jet. He noted that the weather conditions included fog and mist. After touching down about 1,500 ft down the 7,300-ft-long runway, he engaged the thrust reversers and applied the brakes gradually because the runway was "slippery." As the airplane approached the end of the runway, he applied full braking, but the airplane departed the end of the runway and impacted a ditch, which resulted in the forward landing gear breaking and the airplane nosing down. The copilot corroborated the pilot's statement. The fuselage was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
At the conclusion of an uneventful on-demand, instrument flight rules flight at night, the flight crew of the business jet conducted an instrument approach to a runway that was about 7,300 feet long. The crew noted that the weather conditions during the approach included fog and mist, and after touching down about 1,500 feet from the runway threshold, they applied the brakes and thrust reversers gradually due to the "slippery" condition of the runway. As the airplane approached the end of the runway, the crew applied full braking, but the airplane departed the end of the runway and came to rest on the side of an embankment. During the runway overrun the fuselage was substantially damaged. The flight crew reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N135LR
- Reported as
- Learjet 55 (Undesignat)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 068
- Built
- 1982
- Airframe hours
- 12,792.3
- Engines
- Garret TFG 731-3AR-, 3,800 lbs thrust, turbo fanGarret TFG 731-3AR-2, 3,800 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Northwest Aircraft Rental Inc, doing business as Upper Jets
- Registered owner
- Expectra Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 18, 2019
- Departed
- RIC · Richmond, VA
- Destination
- BLM · Farmingdale, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BLM · Monmouth Executive, runway 14, 7,345 × 85 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 13, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 18,288 total · 2,909.8 in this make and model · 8,713 as pilot in command
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 13, 2020
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 14,759 total · 1,978.9 in this make and model · 104.3 in the last 90 days · 35.5 in the last 30 days · 1.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- Observed at
- BLM
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 13, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB in all.