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Learjet 35A - Runway Excursion (Brazil)

 

Date:    Tuesday 20 April 2021

Time:   14:30

Type:   Learjet 35A

Operator:         Eletric Power Construção

Registration:    PR-MLA

C/n / msn:        35-072

First flight:       1976

Crew:   Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3

Passengers:    Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0

Total:   Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3

Aircraft damage:          Destroyed

Aircraft fate:    Written off (damaged beyond repair)

Location:         Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU) (  Brazil)

Phase: Landing (LDG)

Nature:            Test

Departure airport:        Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH), Brazil

Destination airport:      Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH), Brazil

Narrative:

A Learjet 35A, operating on a test , suffered a runway excursion after landing on runway 13 at Belo Horizonte/Pampulha Airport, Brazil. The aircraft went through the perimeter fence broke in two. One pilot died, two other occupants were injured.

 

Runway 13 has a Landing Distance Available of 2364 meters, followed by a 150 m stopway. The aircraft went off the stopway and traveled 60 m on the grass before crashing through the perimeter fence. It continued another 60 meters before it came to rest in some bushes to the right side of a concrete construction for the localizer antenna array.