- Date
- May 7, 1986, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N55NJLearjet 24
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860507016149A
- Case key
- 31623
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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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The plt stated he made a normal apch and landing but on rollout discovered he had no brakes. The acft traveled off the left side of the rwy and collided with a fence surrounding a ballpark. Post crash examination of the hydraulic system revealed that the hydraulic reservoir was empty and the main accumulator and the thrust reverser accumulator had no air charge.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55NJ
- Reported as
- Learjet 24
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-162
- Engine
- GE CJ610-4, 2,850 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- My Wife Yacht Sales, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 21, 1985
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry, runway 9R, 3,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13,325 total · 2,367 in this make and model · 12,963 as pilot in command · 236 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 5 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.