| Date: | Tuesday 12 May 1987 |
| Time: | 10:57 |
| Type: |  Learjet 35A |
| Owner/operator: | Corporate Jets |
| Registration: | N100EP |
| MSN: | 35A-150 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4203 hours |
| Engine model: | Garrett TFE731-2-2B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | West Mifflin, PA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Airport, PA (AGC/KAGC) |
| Teterboro Airport, NJ (TEB/KTEB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Prof check flight with a simulated single engine power loss on takeoff. It climbed only about 50 feet. The nose pitched up and the plane went in a steep bank attitude, descended and crashed in wooded terrain in a right wing down, nose high attitude.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
raising of flaps..premature..copilot/second pilot
airspeed..inadequate
stall..inadvertent
supervision..inadequate..pilot in command(cfi)
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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