| Date: | Wednesday 4 April 2018 |
| Time: | 00:15 |
| Type: |  Learjet 45XR |
| Owner/operator: | ERG Holdings LLC |
| Registration: | N618CW |
| MSN: | 45-430 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2011 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2110 hours |
| Cycles: | 1409 flights |
| Engine model: | Garrett TFE731-20BR-1B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| 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. The nose structure of N618CW was crushed by a large beam of the collapsed hangar and the nose landing gear collapsed.
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
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