Mon, Feb 07, 2005
Report: Last Week's Teterboro Mishap Was Second In 14
Months
General media outlets focused over the weekend over questions
about the Bombardier Challenger series of aircraft, in the wake of
Wednesday's roll-off-the-runway accident at Teterboro Airport in
New Jersey.
"Everyone is doing the same thing. They are asking is there a
problem and what are the facts," SentientJet CEO Steve Hankin told
the North Jersey Herald.
Let's examine the facts.
Wednesday's accident at Teterboro was the second involving a
Bombardier Challenger series aircraft in 14 months. In both cases,
the aircraft ran off the end of the runway -- opposite ends of the
same runway. Neither case involved a fatality.
There are now 64 early model Challengers still in the air over
the US. In the quarter-century since the aircraft went into
service, the Herald reports finding a total of nine NTSB
investigations involving Challengers. In seven of those nine, human
errors were determined to be either primary or secondary
factors.
A Challenger went down during the CL-600 test program killing
the pilot.
Two people were killed when a CL-600 crashed into the side of a
Canadian mountain. In that accident, investigators found the pilot
may have suffered heart problems just before impact and, in any
case, tried a visual approach when instrument meteorological
conditions existed over the runway.
Bombardier continues to stand by its plane. The CL-600 series
"has a well-earned reputation in the industry as a very reliable,
very safe aircraft," spokesman Leo Knaapen told The Sunday Record
of Bergen County.
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