Pilot Debrief

BOMBARDIER INC CL-600-2C10 near Peoria, IL — 2012-07-19

Final reportCEN12LA457
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Date
2012-07-19
Location
Peoria, IL, USA
Airport
PIA
Aircraft
BOMBARDIER INC CL-600-2C10
Registration
N502AE
Category
Airplane
Highest injury
Serious
Fatalities
0
Phase of flight
Approach

Probable cause

The emergency ground egress during which a passenger broke her ankle. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the environmental system, which allowed smoke from a nearby house fire to enter the airplane.

NTSB narrative

While on approach to the airport, the flight crew smelled smoke in the airplane. The airplane landed without incident and the crew directed an emergency ground egress. During the ground egress, one passenger broke her ankle. A postflight review of the airplane found that the airplane was operating on a single environmental pack that failed during the final approach, resulting in ambient air entering the airplane via the ram air inlet. An assessment of the airplane did not find any on-board sources of smoke. However, smoke from a large house fire was present along the airplane's approach path and likely was the source of smoke detected by the crew.

Analysis

Primary failure mode
Mechanical failure
First missed decision gate
Crew could have aborted the approach upon detecting smoke earlier.

NTSB coding

Evidence available

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