ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 319692
| Date: | Wednesday 4 April 2018 |
| Time: | 00:15 |
| Type: |  Cessna 560XL Citation Excel |
| Owner/operator: | MTC Enterprises LLC |
| Registration: | N900WL |
| MSN: | 560-5037 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1999 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 8449 hours |
| Cycles: | 5408 flights |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | OT |
| Location: | Houston-William P. Hobby Airport, TX (HOU) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - | |
| Confidence Rating: |
During a thunderstorm, a local microburst hit a hangar at Houston's William P. Hobby Airport in Texas, USA. The hangar partially collapsed. Several aircraft, parked inside and outside, were damaged.
N900WL was struck and impacted by the building structure and another aircraft, suffering extensive and various forms of impact damage.
Alliance Air Parts subsequently acquired some aircraft for spares:
Cessna Citation 560XL N900WL (msn 560-5037); Learjet 40XR N626FX (msn 2120); Learjet 45XR N618CW (msn 430).
Sources:
click2houston.com
Location
Images:
photo (c) Harro Ranter / ASN; Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach DUS Express Airport (MGL/EDLN); 11 April 2013
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