Eclipse EA500 crash, Dec 13, 2020, Leadville
Eclipse EA500 accident on December 13, 2020 near Leadville, Colorado, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Pilot's failure to maintain proper...
- Date: December 13, 2020
- Aircraft: Eclipse EA500
- Location: Leadville, Colorado, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Pilot's failure to maintain proper control, leading to an unstabilized approach and long landing on a contaminated runway.
An Eclipse EA500 landed long at night at Leadville on a runway contaminated with ice and patchy packed snow after an unstabilized approach. The jet overran the runway end and struck runway end lights and a tree. The NTSB attributed the accident to the pilot's failure to maintain proper control, and found no antilock brake malfunction.