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NTSB Preliminary Report: Crash of Hawker 125 into Apartment Building 11/10/15
On November 10, 2015, Execuflight flight 1526, a British Aerospace HS 125-700A, N237WR, departed controlled flight while on approach to landing at Akron Fulton International Airport (AKR) and impacted a 4-plex apartment building in Akron, Ohio. NTSB determines that the probable cause was the flight crew’s mismanagement of the approach and multiple deviations from company SOPs, which placed the airplane in an unsafe situation and led to an unstabilized approach, a descent below MDA without visual… (www.ntsb.gov) Altro...
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Various reports from the investigation -- http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitlist.cfm?docketID=58493
And a chance to recall what was discussed here when this first occurred. My point is less about how some folks saw it for what it was then, but about how much less impact the event has a year later in an NTSB report when the apartment fire with the Hawker tail
sticking out of it is out!
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/51617/Small%20Plane%20Crashes%20Into%20Akron,%20Ohio,%20Apartment%20Complex
sticking out of it is out!
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/51617/Small%20Plane%20Crashes%20Into%20Akron,%20Ohio,%20Apartment%20Complex
CVR transcript is hard to read. A lot of misunderstanding of basic instrument information and well behind the airplane. Mishandled airspeed....from previous employers, sounds like the FO (Im guessing PF) was a very poor pilot and had no business in a cockpit.
I read the transcript yesterday and found it emotionally difficult to read knowing the outcome.
Poor discipline in the cockpit, confusion on responsibilities, and unfamiliarity with common procedures. Sad to say, but the result was almost inevitable.
Poor discipline in the cockpit, confusion on responsibilities, and unfamiliarity with common procedures. Sad to say, but the result was almost inevitable.
