British Aerospace HS 125 700A accident near Akron, OH
On November 10, 2015, a British Aerospace HS 125 700A (airplane) was involved in an accident near Akron, OH. 9 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- November 10, 2015
- Place
- Akron, OH
- Aircraft
- British Aerospace HS 125 700A · Airplane
- Injuries
- 9 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 41.055°N, 81.424°W
- NTSB ID
- 20151110X65615
Official records · CEN16MA036
- Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations
NTSB summary
The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/aviation.aspx. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-16/03. On November 10, 2015, about 1453 eastern standard time (EST), Execuflight flight 1526, a British Aerospace HS 125-700A (Hawker 700A), N237WR, departed controlled flight while on a nonprecision localizer approach to runway 25 at Akron Fulton International Airport (AKR) and impacted a four-unit apartment building in Akron, Ohio. The captain, first officer, and seven passengers died; no one on the ground was injured. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and postcrash fire. The airplane was registered to Rais Group International NC LLC and operated by Execuflight under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 as an on-demand charter flight. Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) prevailed, and an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan was filed. The flight departed from Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport (MGY), Dayton, Ohio, about 1413 and was destined for AKR.
Probable cause
The flight crew's mismanagement of the approach and multiple deviations from company standard operating procedures, which placed the airplane in an unsafe situation and led to an unstabilized approach, a descent below minimum descent altitude without visual contact with the runway environment, and an aerodynamic stall. Contributing to the accident were Execuflight's casual attitude toward complian
From Wikipedia
Execuflight Flight 1526 was a regularly scheduled charter flight from Dayton–Wright Brothers Airport to Akron Executive Airport in Ohio. On November 10, 2015, the aircraft operating the flight crashed into an apartment building while on approach into Akron, killing all 9 occupants onboard. The investigation found that the crew performed an unstabilized approach, unknowingly letting the aircraft descend too fast and letting the airspeed gradually decrease until it entered a stall from which the crew did not recover.
Text from Wikipedia, “Execuflight Flight 1526”, 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.
