Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
Status:Final
Date:19 JAN 1990
Time:17:09
Type:Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159 Gulfstream II
Operator:Eastman Kodak
Registration: N46TE
C/n / msn: 243
First flight:
Total airframe hrs:5812
Engines: 2 Rolls Royce 511-8 Spey
Crew:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Total:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Little Rock National Airport, AR (LIT) (United States of America) show on map
Phase: Approach (APR)
Nature:Executive
Departure airport:Longview-Gregg County Airport, TX (GGG/KGGG), United States of America
Destination airport:Little Rock National Airport, AR (LIT/KLIT), United States of America
Narrative:
Descended through windshear and touched down 1600 feet short of runway 04. Hit approach lighting system, railroad tracks and a fence.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of the pilot-in-command to follow IFR procedures (maintain an ILS glide path or initiate a missed approach) during an IFR arrival to the airport. Factors related to the accident were: unfavorable weather conditions, an erroneous wind indication from the low level windshear alert system (LLWAS), which resulted in an inaccurate weather (wind) observation, and failure of the pilots to take adequate remedial action."

Sources:
» NTSB

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Distance from Longview-Gregg County Airport, TX to Little Rock National Airport, AR as the crow flies is 346 km (216 miles).

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