Title | Aircraft Accident Brief: Controlled Flight Into Terrain |
Description | Controlled Flight Into Terrain, Learjet 35A, N30DK, San Diego, California, October 24, 2004 |
NTSB Report Number | AAB-06-05, adopted on 5/23/2006 | NTIS Report Number | null |
Related Information |
Accident Number: |
LAX05FA015 |
Aircraft and Registration: |
Learjet 35A, N30DK |
Operator: |
Med Flight Air Ambulance, Inc. |
Location: |
San Diego, California |
Date: |
October 24, 2004 |
Adopted on: |
May 23, 2006 |
HISTORY OF FLIGHT
On October 24, 2004, about 0025 Pacific daylight time, a Learjet 35A, N30DK, registered to
and operated by Med Flight Air Ambulance, Inc. (MFAA), crashed into mountainous
terrain shortly after takeoff from Brown Field Municipal Airport (SDM), near
San Diego, California. The captain, the copilot, and the three medical crewmembers
were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. The repositioning flight was
operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) Part 91 with an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight
plan filed. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
The accident flight was the fourth and final leg of a trip that originated the
previous day. ATI Jet, Inc. (ATIJ), dispatched the airplane, the two flight
crewmembers, and two of the medical crewmembers from Albuquerque International
Sunport (ABQ), Albuquerque, New Mexico, about 1500 on October 23, 2004, for
a repositioning flight to pick up another medical crewmember and a transport
flight to pick up a medical patient in Mexico. According to MFAA personnel,
repositioning flights were conducted under 14 CFR Part 91 rules, and medical
patient transport flights were operated under Part 135.
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