Cessna 560 accident near Pueblo, CO
On February 16, 2005, a Cessna 560 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Pueblo, CO. 8 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- February 16, 2005
- Place
- Pueblo, CO
- Aircraft
- Cessna 560 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 8 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 38.287°N, 104.392°W
- NTSB ID
- 20050304X00267
Official records · DCA05MA037
- Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations
NTSB summary
The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-07/02. On February 16, 2005, about 0913 mountain standard time, a Cessna Citation 560, N500AT, operated by Martinair, Inc., for Circuit City Stores, Inc., crashed about 4 nautical miles east of Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB), Pueblo, Colorado, while on an instrument landing system (ILS) approach to runway 26R. The two pilots and six passengers on board were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and postcrash fire. The flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 on an instrument flight rules flight plan. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The accident flight and another Circuit City Stores Cessna 560 (N500FK, referred to in this report as the "sister ship") were scheduled to transport Circuit City Stores employees from Richmond International Airport, Richmond, Virginia, to John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, California, with scheduled fuel stops at Columbia Regional Airport (COU), Columbia, Missouri, and PUB. The accident flight departed Richmond about 0600 eastern standard time. The flight arrived at COU about 0736 central standard time and departed for PUB about 30 minutes later. At 0847:48, while descending through about flight level 370, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) recorded the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center instructing the flight crew to descend to and maintain 13,000 feet. About 0851, the CVR recorded the flight crew start discu
Probable cause
the flight crew's failure to effectively monitor and maintain airspeed and comply with procedures for deice boot activation on the approach, which caused an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover. Contributing to the accident was the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to establish adequate certification requirements for flight into icing conditions, which led to the inadequate st
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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.
