Jetstream 4101 accident near Columbus, OH
On January 8, 1994, a Jetstream 4101 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Columbus, OH. 5 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- January 8, 1994
- Place
- Columbus, OH
- Aircraft
- Jetstream 4101 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 5 fatal, 0 serious, 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 40.010°N, 82.921°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001206X00616
Official records · DCA94MA027
- Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations
NTSB summary
On Friday, January 7, 1994, at 2321 eastern standard time, a Jetstream J4101, N304UE, operated by Atlantic Coast Airlines of Sterling, Virginia, and doing business as United Express 6291, a scheduled commuter flight from Dulles International Airport to Columbus Ohio,crashed 1.2 nautical miles east of runway 28L at Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus, Ohio. The aircraft had been cleared for an ILS approach to runway 28L and had been in contact with the tower when it crashed into a concrete block manufacturing structure about 1.2 miles from the airport. The pilot, co-pilot, flight attendant and two passengers were fatally injured. Two of the other three passengers received minor injuries while the third was not injured. The airplane was destroyed. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and the airplane was on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan. See Aircraft Accident Report, Atlantic Coast Airlines dba United Express flight 6291, Jetstream 4100, N304UE, Columbus, Ohio, January 7, 1994.
Probable cause
(1) An aerodynamic stall that occurred when the flightcrew allowed the airspeed to decay to stall speed following a very poorly planned and executed approach characterized by an absence of procedural discipline; (2) Improper pilot response to the stall warning, including failure to advance the power levers to maximum, and inappropriately raising the flaps; (3) Flightcrew inexperience in 'glass coc
From Wikipedia
United Express Flight 6291 was a regularly scheduled United Express flight from Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. to Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. It was a service operated by Atlantic Coast Airlines on behalf of United Express.
Late on the night of January 7, 1994, the British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as Flight 6291 stalled and crashed on approach to Port Columbus International Airport. The two pilots, the flight attendant, and two passengers died in the crash. The surviving passengers were a Taiwanese family of three.
Text from Wikipedia, “United Express Flight 6291”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
