Learjet 35 crash, Jan 28, 2005, Kansas City-Charles B. Wh...
Learjet 35 accident on January 28, 2005 near Kansas City-Charles B. Wheeler-Downtown, Missouri, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Overrun on a...
- Date: January 28, 2005
- Aircraft: Learjet 35
- Location: Kansas City-Charles B. Wheeler-Downtown, Missouri, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Overrun on a contaminated runway after landing with inoperative thrust reversers, with inadequate runway information and the diversion to an airport without a snow removal plan as factors (NTSB)
A Learjet 35A on a positioning flight diverted to Kansas City Downtown after Kansas City International closed. It landed at night on a snow-contaminated runway without thrust reversers, overran the end and struck airport property and terrain. The aircraft was substantially damaged and no one was injured.