Runway excursion Accident Dassault Falcon 20C N7824M,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329974

Date:	Friday 18 January 1974
Time:	18:45
Type:	Dassault Falcon 20C
Owner/operator:	Cauble Enterprises
Registration:	N7824M
MSN:	42
Year of manufacture:	1966
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Fort Worth-Meacham Field, TX (FTW) - United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Executive
Departure airport:	Montgomery (unknown airport), AL
Destination airport:	Fort Worth-Meacham Field, TX (FTW/KFTW)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The pilot requested a straight in approach, but was cleared for a circling ILS approach. A rain shower passed the airport and an 8-knot 158-202 degree tailwind was present as the Falcon 20 approached the field. After touchdown the plane hydroplaned. The pilot did not deploy the drag chute and the plane overran the wet runway.

PROBABLE CAUSE:
pilot in command - selected wrong runway relative to existing wind
pilot in command - failed to use or incorrectly used misc.equipment
miscellaneous acts,conditions - hydroplaning on wet runway
airports/airways/facilities - airport conditions: wet runway
FACTORS:
weather - rain
miscellaneous acts,conditions - downwind
weather briefing - briefed by flight service personnel, by radio
weather forecast - forecast substantially correct

Accident investigation: