Execuflight Flight 1526
Execuflight Flight 1526 was an Execuflight airline charter flight from Dayton Airport, Ohio to Akron Fulton Airport on November 10, 2015, with a Hawker 800. On final approach to Akron, the pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed in a residential neighborhood and exploded. The nine occupants were killed in the crash, the aircraft and the house in which it had crashed, had burned completely at the accident site.[1]
 The crash site | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 10 November 2015 |
| Summary | Loss of control and subsequent controlled flight into terrain due to reduced airspeed in the approach phase to land due to crew error and fatigue of both pilots. |
| Site | 4 km northeast of Akron Fulton International Airport, United States |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Hawker 800 |
| Operator | Execuflight |
| Call sign | ZIPLINE 1526 |
| Registration | N237WR |
| Flight origin | Dayton International Airport, United States |
| Destination | Akron Fulton International Airport, United States |
| Occupants | 9 |
| Passengers | 7 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 9 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Crew
The crew consisted of 40-year-old Colombian Captain Oscar Chávez and 50-year-old Italian First Officer Renato Marchese. There were no flight attendants on the flight. The captain had been with the airline since June 4, 2015. His cumulative flight experience was 6,170 hours, of which he had flown 3,414 hours as pilot in command. He had 1,020 hours of flight experience with the accident plane, of which 670 hours as pilot in command. The first officer was hired by Execuflight on June 1, 2015. He had 4,382 hours of flight experience, 3,200 of which he had served as pilot in command. His flight experience with accident-type aircraft totaled 482 hours, which he had completed in its entirety as a first officer.
Investigation
Recordings and interviews with the colleagues of the pilots showed that the pilots were overly tired at the time of the accident, having only slept about six hours a night on average during the previous nights.
They lowered the aircraft below the safe altitude of 473 feet, although they could see the ground but still could not see the runway. As they searched for the runway, they failed to see that the airspeed had dropped to 98 knots, causing an aerodynamic stall.
In popular culture
The accident is featured in the 2nd episode of Season 21 of Air Crash Investigation, also known as Mayday. The episode is titled "Playing Catch Up".
References
Other websites
- Crash During Nonprecision Instrument Approach to Landing Execuflight Flight 1526 British Aerospace HS125-700A, N237WR Akron, Ohio November 10, 2015 Accident Report NTSB/AAR-16/03 PB2016-104168, National Transportation Safety Board.
- Crash of a BAe 125-700A in Akron: 9 killed, B3A – Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives