ASN Aircraft accident Learjet 35A PR-MLA Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU)
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Status:Information verified through authorities or other official sources.
Date:Tuesday 20 April 2021
Time:14:30
Type:Silhouette image of generic LJ35 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Learjet 35A
Operator:Eletric Power Construção
Registration: PR-MLA
MSN: 35-072
First flight: 1976
Crew:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU) (   Brazil)
Phase: Landing (LDG)
Nature:Test
Departure airport:Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH), Brazil
Destination airport:Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH), Brazil
Narrative:
A Learjet 35A, operating on a test and training flight, suffered a runway excursion after landing on runway 13 at Belo Horizonte/Pampulha Airport, Brazil. The crew was performing a touch-and-go when the aircraft touched down with the undercarriage retracted. The aircraft went through the perimeter fence broke in two. One pilot died, two other occupants were injured.

Runway 13 has a Landing Distance Available of 2364 meters, followed by a 150 m stopway. The aircraft went off the stopway and traveled 60 m on the grass before crashing through the perimeter fence. It continued another 60 meters before it came to rest in some bushes to the right side of a concrete construction for the localizer antenna array.

Accident investigation:

Investigating agency: CENIPA Brazil
Status: Investigation ongoing

Classification:
Runway excursion (overrun)

Sources:
» g1.globo.com

METAR Weather report:
17:00 UTC / 14:00 local time:
SBBH 201700Z 23004KT 9999 SCT040 27/10 Q1014


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