Learjet 55 Longhorn crash, Jan 11, 2024, Livingston
Learjet 55 Longhorn accident on January 11, 2024 near Livingston, Montana, United States with no fatalities. Cause: The decision to land on a snow...
- Date: January 11, 2024
- Aircraft: Learjet 55 Longhorn
- Location: Livingston, Montana, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The decision to land on a snow covered runway with a tailwind led to a runway excursion. Contributing: the airport's failure to plow the runway (NTSB).
A Royal Air Freight Learjet 55 landed on an unplowed snow covered runway at Livingston with a tailwind, could not stop and overran into a ravine. Both pilots survived. The NTSB blamed the decision to land with a tailwind on snow and the airport's failure to plow the runway.