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| Title: | Stall on takeoff, Bombardier CL-600-2B16 (CL-604), C-FTBZ , Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas, October 10, 2000 |
| Micro summary: | This Bombardier CL-600-2B16 stalled on takeoff and crashed. |
| Event Time: | 2000-10-10 at 1452 CDT |
| File Name: | 2000-10-10-US.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) |
| Publishing Country: | USA |
| Report number: | NTSB/AAB-04/01 |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Site of event: | Takeoff, ICT |
| Departure: | Wichita Mid-Continent Airport (ICT), Wichita, Kansas, USA |
| Destination: | Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas, USA |
| Airplane Type(s): | Bombardier CL-600-2B16 (CL-604) |
| Flight Phase: | Takeoff |
| Registration(s): | C-FTBZ |
| Operator(s): | Bombardier Incorporated |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 3 |
| Fatalities: | 3 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 0 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | On October 10, 2000, at 1452 central daylight time, a Canadair Challenger CL-600-2B16 (CL-604) (Canadian registration C-FTBZ and operated by Bombardier Incorporated) was destroyed on impact with terrain and postimpact fire during initial climb from runway 19R at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport (ICT), Wichita, Kansas. The flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 as an experimental test flight.2 The pilot and flight test engineer were killed. The copilot was seriously injured and died 36 days later. PROBABLE CAUSE The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot’s excessive takeoff rotation, during an aft center of gravity (c.g.) takeoff, a rearward migration of fuel during acceleration and takeoff and consequent shift in the airplane’s aft c.g. to aft of the aft c.g. limit, which caused the airplane to stall at an altitude too low for recovery. Contributing to the accident were Bombardier’s inadequate flight planning procedures for the Challenger flight test program and the lack of direct, on-site operational oversight by Transport Canada and the Federal Aviation Administration. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Center of Gravity/MAC |
| Operations - Loading | |
| Operations - Uncontrolled Flight into Terrain | |
| Systems - Flight Controls - Flap Configuration | |
| Consequence - Hull Loss |
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