- Date
- April 1, 2023, 19:37 local (23:37 UTC)
- Place
- Wall Township, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N85AVCessna 750
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230401020889A
- Case key
- 106991
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 pilots’ loss of directional control while landing in gusting wind conditions which resulted in a runway excursion. Also contributing was the flight crew’s decision to land at an airport where there was a rapidly approaching severe thunderstorm.
Findings · 4
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 flight crew of the business jet reported that after touching down on runway centerline the airplane was struck by a gust of wind from the right. They were able to keep the airplane on the runway centerline but were subsequently struck by another more powerful gust, which pushed the airplane off the left side of the runway. The runway excursion resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage and left wing. A posaccident review of weather radar data showed that a severe thunderstorm (for which a tornado warning had been issued) was present to the west of the airport and was rapidly moving east. There was a convective SIGMET valid for the airport at the time of the accident. The pilot-in-command reported checking relevant weather information before the flight, that the airplane was equipped with an operational onboard weather radar system, and that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85AV
- Reported as
- Cessna 750
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7500085
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 12,272.7
- Engines
- Rolls Royce AE 3007C, 7,042 lbs thrust, turbo fanRolls Royce AE 3007C, 7,042 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- USAC Airways 693, LLC, doing business as Discovery Jets
- Registered owner
- Bank Of Utah Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 21, 2023
- Departed
- BNA · Nashville, TN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BLM · Monmouth Executive Airport, runway 32, 7,345 × 85 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system, Angle of attack indicator, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Auto-pilot, Data recorder, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 30, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 12,865 total · 264 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 180 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 6.9 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 8, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,450 total · 330 in this make and model · 850 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 110° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.31 inHg
- Observed at
- BLM
- METAR
- KBLM 012336Z AUTO 11004KT 10SM VCTS -RA CLR 17/17 A2931 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SW-N TSB30RAB31 P0001
Docket · 8
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 29, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 16.7 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.