Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 30 MAR 1983 |
| Time: | 05:14 EST |
| Type: | Learjet 25 |
| Operating for: | Hughes Charter Air |
| Leased from: | Chatham Corp. |
| Registration: | N51CA |
| C/n / msn: | 25-030 |
| First flight: | |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5750 |
| Engines: | 2 General Electric CJ610-6 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW/KMDW), United States of America |
| Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 27 |
Night check courier flight. The Learjet descended steep and fast for runway 04R and bounced on landing. It banked to the right, hit the ground and burned. Both pilots exposed to marijuana and CO2 in blood from smoking.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "(a) Loss of control following ground contact, (b) an unstabilized approach. and c) impairment of the flightcrew's judgment, decisionmaking, and flying abilities by a combination of physioIogical and psychological factors." Sources:
Follow-up / safety actions
NTSB issued 4 Safety Recommendations
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Chicago-Midway Airport, IL to Newark International Airport, NJ as the crow flies is 1133 km (708 miles).
Distance from Chicago-Midway Airport, IL to Newark International Airport, NJ as the crow flies is 1133 km (708 miles).
