NTSB Identification: DCA05MA031
Nonscheduled 14 CFR Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
Accident occurred Wednesday, February 02, 2005 in Teterboro, NJ
Probable Cause Approval Date: 02/01/2007
Aircraft: Bombardier CL-600-1A11, registration: N370V
Injuries: 4 Serious,9 Minor.
NTSB investigators traveled in support of this investigation and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-06/04.
On February 2, 2005, about 0718 eastern standard time, a Bombardier Challenger CL-600-1A11, N370V, ran off the departure end of runway 6 at Teterboro Airport (TEB), Teterboro, New Jersey, at a ground speed of about 110 knots; through an airport perimeter fence; across a six-lane highway (where it struck a vehicle); and into a parking lot before impacting a building. The two pilots were seriously injured, as were two occupants in the vehicle. The cabin aide, eight passengers, and one person in the building received minor injuries. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and postimpact fire. The accident flight was an on-demand passenger charter flight from TEB to Chicago Midway Airport, Chicago, Illinois. The flight was subject to the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 and operated by Platinum Jet Management, LLC (PJM), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, under the auspices of a charter management agreement with Darby Aviation (Darby), Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:the pilots' failure to ensure the airplane was loaded within weight and balance limits and their attempt to takeoff with the center of gravity well forward of the forward takeoff limit, which prevented the airplane from rotating at the intended rotation speed.
Contributing to the accident were: 1) PJM's conduct of charter flights (using PJM pilots and airplanes) without proper Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification and its failure to ensure that all for-hire flights were conducted in accordance with 14 CFR Part 135 requirements; 2) Darby Aviation's failure to maintain operational control over 14 CFR Part 135 flights being conducted under its certificate by PJM, which resulted in an environment conducive to the development of systemic patterns of flight crew performance deficiencies like those observed in this accident; 3) the failure of the Birmingham, Alabama, FAA Flight Standards District Office to provide adequate surveillance and oversight of operations conducted under Darby's Part 135 certificate; and 4) the FAA's tacit approval of arrangements such as that between Darby and PJM.
The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-06/04.
Crews secure a jet to a flatbed truck after removing it from Strawberry warehouse on Route 46
NEWARK – An executive with the defunct charter airline Platinum Jet Management was sentenced Tuesday to one year probation and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to fraud in federal court.
Joseph Singh of Boca Raton, Fla., thanked federal District Court Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh moments before sentencing but said nothing more. He was wearing a white shirt, yellow tie and wrinkled gray suit.
Platinum Jet used unqualified pilots to fly its jets including one that overran the runway at Teterboro Airport and careened into a clothing warehouse. Fourteen people were injured in the crash.
“It’s not that I’m being lenient,” Cavanaugh said. “(You) cooperated with the prosecution.”
After the verdict, Florida defense attorney Mark Douglas said the ruling was fair under the circumstances.
“His role was minimal, but he has accepted responsibility.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott McBride had no comment.
Singh is the second official from Platinum Jet Management to plead guilty to fraud charges, and he later testified for the government. He admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark that an unqualified pilot was flying a commuter plane on Feb. 2, 2005, when it plowed through a steel fence and skidded across six lanes of Route 46.
The plane slammed into a warehouse and caught fire after a failed takeoff from Teterboro. Two pilots and two Paterson men in a car were seriously injured. Ten others — nine on the plane and one on the ground — suffered minor injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the flight's crew failed to properly calculate the plane's center of gravity after refueling, which kept the Chicago-bound jet from taking off. The weight of the plane was intentionally misreported by the company’s founders, so that pilots would buy more fuel at airports where it was cheaper.
Platinum Jet was founded in August 2000 and flew more than 100 charter flights and collected more than $3 million in revenue over the next 15 months without the required certificate for commercial operations, prosecutors have said. It later shared another company's certificate but continued to skirt FAA safety rules and falsify required paperwork, according to court documents.
Source: http://www.northjersey.com
Joseph Singh of Boca Raton, Fla., thanked federal District Court Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh moments before sentencing but said nothing more. He was wearing a white shirt, yellow tie and wrinkled gray suit.
Platinum Jet used unqualified pilots to fly its jets including one that overran the runway at Teterboro Airport and careened into a clothing warehouse. Fourteen people were injured in the crash.
“It’s not that I’m being lenient,” Cavanaugh said. “(You) cooperated with the prosecution.”
After the verdict, Florida defense attorney Mark Douglas said the ruling was fair under the circumstances.
“His role was minimal, but he has accepted responsibility.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott McBride had no comment.
Singh is the second official from Platinum Jet Management to plead guilty to fraud charges, and he later testified for the government. He admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark that an unqualified pilot was flying a commuter plane on Feb. 2, 2005, when it plowed through a steel fence and skidded across six lanes of Route 46.
The plane slammed into a warehouse and caught fire after a failed takeoff from Teterboro. Two pilots and two Paterson men in a car were seriously injured. Ten others — nine on the plane and one on the ground — suffered minor injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the flight's crew failed to properly calculate the plane's center of gravity after refueling, which kept the Chicago-bound jet from taking off. The weight of the plane was intentionally misreported by the company’s founders, so that pilots would buy more fuel at airports where it was cheaper.
Platinum Jet was founded in August 2000 and flew more than 100 charter flights and collected more than $3 million in revenue over the next 15 months without the required certificate for commercial operations, prosecutors have said. It later shared another company's certificate but continued to skirt FAA safety rules and falsify required paperwork, according to court documents.
Source: http://www.northjersey.com
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