- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | October 10, 2000 |
Time: | 1452 |
Location: | Wichita, Kansas |
Operator: | Bombardier Aerospace |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Test flight |
AC Type: | Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 |
Registration: | C-FTBZ |
cn / ln: | 5991 |
Aboard: | 3 (passengers:0 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The cause of this accident was the pilot's excessive takeoff rotation, during an aft center of gravity takeoff, a rearward migration of fuel during acceleration and takeoff and consequent shift in the airplane's aft c.g. to aft of the aft c.g. limit, which caused the airplane to stall at an altitude too low for recovery. Contributing to the accident were Bombardier's inadequate flight planning procedures for the Challenger flight test program and the lack of direct, on-site operational oversight by Transport Canada and the Federal Aviation Administration. |
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