Pilot Debrief

LEARJET 60 near Wheeling, IL — 2020-10-22

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Date
2020-10-22
Location
Wheeling, IL, USA
Airport
KPWK
Aircraft
LEARJET 60
Registration
N1128M
Category
Airplane
Highest injury
None
Fatalities
0
Phase of flight
Approach

Probable cause

The flight crew's misidentification of the landing runway, which resulted in a runway overrun and the airplane’s impact with the airport perimeter fence.

NTSB narrative

The flight crew of the nonscheduled air taxi airplane inadvertently landed on runway 30 instead of runway 34 at Chicago Executive Airport, Wheeling, Illinois. Before departure, the captain conducted a time-of-arrival landing distance assessment and calculated a factored landing distance of 4,790 ft. The landing distance available on runway 34 was 5,001 ft. During the visual approach to the airport, the flight crew misidentified runway 30 as runway 34; visually aligned with runway 30, which had an available landing distance of 3,983 ft; and used the runway 30 PAPI lights to provide vertical guidance to the runway. Sufficient landing distance was not available on runway 30, and the captain steered the airplane to the left after realizing that it would not be able to stop before the end of the runway surface. The airplane subsequently overran the runway and came to rest by the airport perimeter fence, causing substantial damage to the right wing. The flight crew did not recognize its runway alignment error until after landing.

Analysis

Primary failure mode
Human factors
First missed decision gate
Crew could have confirmed runway visually before landing.

NTSB coding

Evidence available

  • CVR
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  • 8 docket documents
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Docket documents8

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