H25B, vicinity Akron OH USA, 2015

H25B, vicinity Akron OH USA, 2015

Summary

On 10 November 2015, the crew of an HS 125 lost control of their aircraft during an unstabilised non-precision approach to Akron when descent was continued below Minimum Descent Altitude without the prescribed visual reference. The airspeed decayed significantly below minimum safe so that a low level aerodynamic stall resulted from which recovery was not achieved. All nine occupants died when it hit an apartment block but nobody on the ground was injured. The Investigation faulted crew flight management and its context - a dysfunctional Operator and inadequate FAA oversight of both its pilot training programme and flight operations.

Description

On 10 November 2015, a BAe HS125-700/ Hawker 700A (N237WR) being operated by Execuflight on a business charter flight from Dayton Wright Brothers to Akron with 2 pilots and 7 passengers on board failed to complete a non-precision approach to runway 25 at destination made in day IMC and crashed into a four-unit apartment block and was destroyed by the impact and post-crash fire. All on board were killed but there were no injuries to persons on the ground.

The accident site [Reproduced from the Official Report]

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the NTSB. The aircraft was not fitted with an FDR nor was it required to be. The 30 minute CVR was recovered from the wreckage and its data were successfully downloaded but due to a loud tone of around 400 Hz and associated harmonics, the quality of the recording was poor.

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