| Date: | Sunday 13 August 1989 |
| Time: | 17:50 |
| Type: |  Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3A |
| Owner/operator: | L.M. Barbenell |
| Registration: | N66HA |
| MSN: | 25126 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3966 hours |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Viper 522 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Houston-Hobby Airport, TX (HOU) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Savannah International Airport, GA (SAV/KSAV) |
| Houston-William P. Hobby Airport, TX (HOU/KHOU) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Directional control was lost on landing. The HS-125 overran runway 12R and crossed a ditch collapsing the nose gear.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of the nose wheel steering system for undetermined reasons, and the pilot-in-command's hesitation reaching for the nose wheel steering tiller. A contributing factor was his lack of experience in a DH-125."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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