| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | July 31, 2008 |
| Time: | 0953 |
| Location: | Owatonna, Minnesota |
| Operator: | East Coast Jets |
| Flight #: | 81 |
| Route: | Atlantic City, NJ- Owatonna,MN |
| AC Type: | British Aerospace BAe-125-800A |
| Registration: | N818MV |
| cn / ln: | 258186 |
| Aboard: | 8 (passengers:6 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 8 (passengers:6 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | While attempting to land on Runway 30, the business jet landed 500 to 1000 feet down a 5,000 ft. runway, overran the runway, passed over a ditch and roadway, slid into a cornfield and broke up. One person survived the accident but died later. The pilots were both working on insufficient sleep and displayed poor coordination with one another. The pilots failed to account for a wet runway and 8-knot tailwind when they touched down on the 5,500-foot runway, and they should have applied a braking system a full seven seconds earlier than they did.Realizing they were running out of runway, the pilots hit the throttles to try to take off again. Had the pilots hit the lift dump right after touchdown, or landed into the wind, the plane probably could have stopped safely on the runway. The accident was due to the captain's decision to attempt a go-around late in the landing roll with insufficient runway remaining. Contributing to the accident were the pilots' poor crew coordination and lack of cockpit discipline.; fatigue, which likely impaired both pilots' performance and failure of the FAA to require crew resource management training and standard operating procedures for Part 135 operators. |
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