Incident Overview

Date: Wednesday 19 July 2006
Aircraft Type: Cessna 560 Citation Encore
Owner/operator: Tomco II
Registration Number: N636SE
Location: 0,5 km N of Cresco-Ellen Church Field Airport, IA – ÿ United States of America
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Substantial, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4
Component Affected: Flight management system and navigation chartsFlight management system and navigation charts
Investigating Agency: NTSBNTSB
Category: Accident
A Cessna 560 Citation Encore, N636SE, experienced damage during an aborted landing on runway 33 at Cresco-Ellen Church Field Airport (CJJ), Iowa, USA. The aircraft was diverted to CJJ due to bad weather. The crew attempted to navigate around the runway but the aircraft landed in a cornfield.A Cessna 560 Citation Encore, N636SE, experienced damage during an aborted landing on runway 33 at Cresco-Ellen Church Field Airport (CJJ), Iowa, USA. The aircraft was diverted to CJJ due to bad weather. The crew attempted to navigate around the runway but the aircraft landed in a cornfield.

Description

The Cessna 560 Citation Encore, N636SE, received substantial damage on impact with cornfield terrain during an aborted landing on runway 33 at Cresco-Ellen Church Field Airport (CJJ), Iowa, USA. The aircraft departed Oxford, MS (UOX) for a one hour and 45 minute flight to Rochester, MN (RST). The crew were descending for Rochester when bad weather ahead caused them to decide to divert to Cresco-Ellen Church Field Airport (CJJ). The crew flew an approach to runway 33 (2,949 feet by 50 feet, concrete). After landing the airplane could not be stopped on the runway and the crew attempted to go around. The Cessna continued and came to rest in a corn field about 1,751 feet north of the departure end of runway 33. The airplane was registered to Tomco II, LLC and managed by and listed on the air operator certificate of Jackson Air Charter, Inc. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The flight crew’s inadequate aeronautical decision-making and poor crew resource management (CRM), including the inadequate use of the on-board sources (such as the flight management system and navigation charts), to get critical information about Ellen Church Field Airport, including runway direction and length. Contributing factors to the accident were the flight crew’s failure to consider and understand indications that the runway length was insufficient and inadequate CRM training for pilots at Part 135 on-demand operators.”

Primary Cause

Inadequate aeronautical decision-making and poor crew resource management (CRM), specifically inadequate use of on-board sources (flight management system and navigation charts) regarding runway direction and insufficient CRM training for pilots at Part 135 on-demand operators.Inadequate aeronautical decision-making and poor crew resource management (CRM), specifically inadequate use of on-board sources (flight management system and navigation charts) regarding runway direction and insufficient CRM training for pilots at Part 135 on-demand operators.

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