Accident description
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| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 11 AUG 2007 |
| Time: | 16:35 |
| Type: | Learjet 35A |
| Operator: | World Jet II |
| Registration: | N500ND |
| C/n / msn: | 35A-351 |
| First flight: | 1980 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | unk |
| Location: | Dominica-Melville Hall Airport (DOM) (Dominica) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Int'l Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Saint John Island Airport (SJF), U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Dominica-Melville Hall Airport (DOM/TDPD), Dominica |
The first officer was flying the airplane and the tower cleared them to enter a left downwind. On touchdown the first officer requested spoilers, and noticed poor braking. The pilot in command pumped the brakes with no response. The drag chute was deployed but was not effective. The pilot in command stated he took over the flight controls and applied maximum braking. The airplane continued to roll off the end of the runway, down an embankment, through a fence, and came to a stop on a road.
Sources:
» NTSB
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
