Mon, Nov 20, 2006
Crew Failed To Check Instruments, Follow Approach
Procedures
The National Transportation Safety
Board released its final report Monday on the 2004 crash of a
corporate jet in Houston, TX that killed three crewmembers.
As Aero-News reported, the
plane was on its way to pick up former President George H.W. Bush
for a flight to Ecuador when it went down. The two pilots and a
flight attendant were the only persons aboard the plane when it
crashed November 22, 2004.
The board found the Gulfstream G-1159A (N85VT), operated by
Business Jet Services Ltd., struck a light pole and crashed about 3
miles southwest of William P. Hobby Airport in Houston while on an
instrument landing system approach to runway 4.
The Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the crash
was the flight crew's failure to adequately monitor and cross check
the flight instruments during the approach. Contributing to
the accident was the flight crew's failure to select the instrument
landing system frequency in a timely manner and to adhere to
approved company approach procedures, including the stabilized
approach criteria.
"It is imperative that flight crews maintain their vigilance
constantly during all phases of flight," NTSB Chairman Mark V.
Rosenker said. "The circumstances of this accident support
the Board's effort to have the Federal Aviation Administration
include mandatory crew resource management training in Part 135
operations. This issue was added to the Board's Most Wanted
List of Transportation Safety Improvements last week."
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