Description

On 1 October 2010, a Gulfstream G-IV being operated by General Aviation Flying Service as ‘Meridian Air Charter’ on a corporate flight from Toronto International to Teterboro made a deep landing on 1833m-long runway 06 at destination in normal day visibility and overran the end of the runway at a speed of 40 kt to 50 kt before coming to a stop 30m into a 122m long Engineered Materials Arresting System installation. The aircraft suffered only minor damage and none of the 10 occupants were injured.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the National Transportation Safety Board (USA) (NTSB) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) data was available to assist.

The weather at the time of the accident was found to have been light rain with broken cloud at 600ft aal and the wind northerly and gusting up to 20 knots. It was noted that the flight crew were on the second part of a split duty and that the aircraft commander had been acting as PF.