Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 04 JUN 1984 |
| Time: | 23:41 |
| Type: | Learjet 23 |
| Operator: | Air Continental |
| Registration: | N101PP |
| C/n / msn: | 23-085 |
| First flight: | |
| Total airframe hrs: | 8393 |
| Engines: | 2 General Electric CJ610-4 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Windsor Locks, CT (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Syracuse-Hancock International Airport, NY (SYR/KSYR), United States of America |
| Windsor Locks-Bradley International Airport, CT (BDL/KBDL), United States of America |
Asymmetric spoiler configuration while on approach to runway 33. Turned right with a bank increasing to 90deg; lost control, crashed and burned.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
flt control syst,wing spoiler system..undetermined
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS:
LIGHT CONDITION..DARK NIGHT Sources:
» NTSB
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Syracuse-Hancock International Airport, NY to Windsor Locks-Bradley International Airport, CT as the crow flies is 307 km (192 miles).
Distance from Syracuse-Hancock International Airport, NY to Windsor Locks-Bradley International Airport, CT as the crow flies is 307 km (192 miles).
