Status:	Final
Date:	08 DEC 1983
Type:	Cessna 500 Citation I
Operating for:	Trans Europe Air Charter
Leased from:	Brencham Ltd
Registration:	G-UESS
C/n / msn:	500-0326
First flight:	1976
Total airframe hrs:	1871
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney JT15D-1
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Total:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	19 km (11.9 mls) SE off Stornoway Airport (SYY) (United Kingdom)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Liverpool International Airport (LPL/EGGP), United Kingdom
Destination airport:	Stornoway Airport (SYY/EGPO), United Kingdom

Narrative:
Descended too low and crashed into the water.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's lack of awareness of his true altitude, which resulted in his allowing his aircraft to descend until it struck the sea. Likely contributory factors were that he was distracted by the need to establish visual contact with another aircraft and that he was misled by false cues from lights on the ground ahead of him."

Events:

Sources:
» CAA AAR 5/84