Status:	Final
Date:	18 JUN 1994
Time:	06:25 EDT
Type:	Learjet 25D
Operator:	TAESA
Registration:	XA-BBA
C/n / msn:	25-223
First flight:	1977
Total airframe hrs:	6118
Cycles:	5664
Engines:	2 General Electric CJ610-6
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Total:	Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12
Airplane damage:	Destroyed
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	near Chantilly, VA (United States of America)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	New Orleans-Lakefront Airport, LA (NEW/KNEW), United States of America
Destination airport:	Washington-Dulles International Airport, DC (IAD/KIAD), United States of America

Narrative:
The inexperienced captain continued the unstabilized runway 1R ILS approach and descended below the authorized altitude without visual contact. The Learjet struck trees and crashed 0,8nm short of the Dulles runway threshold.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The poor decisionmaking, poor airmanship, and relative inexperience of the captain in initiating and continuing an unstabilized instrument approach that led to a descent below the authorized altitude without visual contact with the runway environment. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the lack of a ground proximity warning system on the airplane."

Events:

Sources:
» NTSB-AAR-95-02
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