| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | June 18, 1994 |
| Time: | 0625 |
| Location: | Chantilly, Virginia |
| Operator: | TAESA |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Mexico City - Washington D.C. |
| AC Type: | Learjet 25D |
| Registration: | XA-BBA |
| cn / ln: | 25D223 |
| Aboard: | 12 (passengers:10 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 12 (passengers:10 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The aircraft crashed in poor weather conditions 0.8 nm south of the threshold of runway 1R at Dulles International Airport while attempting a ILS landing. Poor airmanship and relative inexperience of the captain in initiating and continuing an unstabilized instrument approach that led to a descent below the authorized altitude without visual contact with the runway environment. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the lack of a GPWS on the airplane. |
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