Status: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Datum: | Sonntag 24 Oktober 2004 |
Zeit: | 00:25 |
Flugzeugtyp: | Learjet 35A |
Fluggesellschaft: | Med Flight Air Ambulance |
Kennzeichen: | N30DK |
Werknummer: | 35A-345 |
Baujahr: | 1980 |
Betriebsstunden: | 10047 |
Triebwerk: | 2 Garrett TFE731-2-2B |
Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 2 / Insassen: 2 |
Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 3 / Insassen: 3 |
Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 5 / Insassen: 5 |
Sachschaden: | Zerstört |
Konsequenzen: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Unfallort: | 13 km (8.1 Meilen) E of San Diego-Brown Field Municipal Airport, CA (SDM) ( USA)
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Flugphase: | Während des Fluges (ENR) |
Betriebsart: | Leerflug |
Flug von: | San Diego-Brown Field Municipal Airport, CA (SDM/KSDM), USA |
Flug nach: | Albuquerque International Airport, NM (ABQ/KABQ), USA |
Unfallbericht:The flight departed Brown Field's runway 08 at 00:23 after dropping a medical patient off, and was returning to Albuquerque. It climbed straight ahead and the SoCAL TRACON controller instructed the pilots to turn to a heading of 020 degrees, maintain VFR (visual flight rules), and expect their IFR clearance above 5,000 feet. The aircraft then entered a broken-to-overcast layer of clouds and crashed into the Otay Mountain at an altitude of 2300 feet.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight crew's failure to maintain terrain clearance during a visual flight rules (VFR) departure, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain, and the air traffic controller's issuance of a clearance that transferred the responsibility for terrain clearance from the flight crew to the controller. Additionally, the controller's failure to provide terrain clearance instructions to the flight crew, and failure to advise the flight crew of the minimum safe altitude warning (MSAW) alerts was also causal to the accident."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year and 7 months | Accident number: | NTSB AAB-06-05 | Download report: | Final report
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Informationsquelle:
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Distance from San Diego-Brown Field Municipal Airport, CA to Albuquerque International Airport, NM as the crow flies is 990 km (619 miles).
Accident location: Exact; deduced from official accident report.
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.