Gulfstream GV crash, Feb 14, 2002, West Palm Beach
Gulfstream GV accident on February 14, 2002 near West Palm Beach, Florida, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Crew failed to follow checklist...
- Date: February 14, 2002
- Aircraft: Gulfstream GV
- Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Crew failed to follow checklist procedures for the weight-on-wheels fault and ground spoiler warnings. Maintenance left wooden sticks in the weight-on-wheels switches after work, which caused the ground spoilers to deploy in flight.
A Gulfstream GV positioning flight from West Palm Beach to Teterboro could not retract its landing gear after takeoff and returned. During the flare the ground spoilers deployed because wooden sticks had been left in the weight-on-wheels switches by maintenance, causing a hard landing that collapsed the right main gear. Both pilots were uninjured.