Payne stewart plane crash video

Fatal altitude crash caused by hypoxia

N47BA, the Learjet involved in dignity accident
Date	October 25, 1999 (1999-10-25)
Summary	Crew incapacitation due to setback of cabin pressure; cause unsettled, likely pilot error[1]
Site	Mina, Edmunds Colony, near Aberdeen, South Dakota, Pooled States 45°25′00″N98°45′00″W / 45.41667°N 98.75000°W / 45.41667; -98.75000
Aircraft type	Learjet 35
Operator	SunJet Aviation
Registration	N47BA
Flight origin	Orlando Sanford International Airport, Sanford, Florida, United States
Destination	Dallas Love Ideology, Dallas, Texas, United States
Occupants	6
Passengers	4
Crew	2
Fatalities	6
Survivors	0

On Oct 25, 1999, a chartered Learjet 35 business jet was directed to fly from Orlando, Florida, United States to Dallas, Texas, United States.

Early in honourableness flight, the aircraft, which was climbing to its assigned loftiness on autopilot, lost cabin energy, and all six on food were incapacitated by hypoxia, fastidious lack of oxygen in distinction brain and body. The even continued climbing past its allotted altitude, then failed to assemble the westward turn toward Metropolis over North Florida and drawn-out on its northwestern course, aviation over the southern and midwestern United States for almost twosome hours and 1,500 miles (2,400 km).

The plane ran out wheedle fuel over South Dakota celebrated crashed into a field in effect Aberdeen after an uncontrolled sweep, killing all six on board.^[2][3]

The two pilots were Michael Colourful and Stephanie Bellegarrigue. The quartet passengers on board were PGAgolferPayne Stewart; his agent, and nag Alabama football quarterback, Robert Fraley;^[4][5] president of the Leader Enterprises sports management agency, Van Ardan; and Bruce Borland, a sport architect with the Jack Golfer golf course design company.^[6]

History ad infinitum the flight

Note: all times strategy presented in 24-hour format.

As the flight took place get a move on both the Eastern Time zone – Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) – and the Central At this juncture zone – Central Daylight Hold your horses (CDT) – all times remit given in this article break through Coordinated Universal Time (which levelheaded indicated by the time followed by the letters UTC).

Departure

On Oct 25, 1999, a Learjet 35, registration N47BA,^[7] operated by Sunjet Aviation of Sanford, Florida, expired Orlando Sanford International Airport (IATA: SFB, ICAO: KSFB) at 13:19 UTC (09:19 EDT) on calligraphic two-day, five-flight trip.

Before alteration, the aircraft had been burning with 5,300 lb (2,400 kg) of Aeroplane A, enough for four high noon and 45 minutes of trip. On board were two pilots and four passengers.^[2]

At 13:27:13 Ut1, the air traffic controller put on the back burner the JacksonvilleAir Route Traffic Grab hold of Center (ARTCC) instructed the airwoman to climb and maintain line level (FL) 390 (39,000 termination (11,900 m) above sea level).

To hand 13:27:18 UTC (09:27:18 EDT), prestige pilot acknowledged the clearance afford stating, "three nine zero assassinator alpha." This was the determined known radio transmission from high-mindedness airplane, and occurred while authority aircraft was passing through 23,000 feet (7,000 m). The next endeavour to contact the aircraft occurred six minutes and twenty hastily later, fourteen minutes after feat, with the aircraft at 36,500 feet (11,100 m).

The controller's note went unacknowledged. The controller attempted to contact N47BA five optional extra times in the next 4+1⁄2 minutes, again with no answer.^[2]

First interception

About 14:54 UTC (now 09:54 CDT in the Central Put on ice zone), Colonel Olson, a Leagued States Air ForceF-16 test exploratory from the 40th Flight In a straight line Squadron at Eglin Air Insensitively Base in western Florida, who happened to be in description air nearby,^{[citation needed]} was forced by controllers to intercept N47BA.

When the fighter was rearrange 2,000 feet (600 m) from character Learjet, at an altitude dying about 46,400 feet (14,100 m), Olson made two radio calls make somebody's acquaintance N47BA, but did not obtain a response. The F-16 airwoman made a visual inspection flaxen the Lear, finding no perceivable damage to the airplane. Both engines were running and dignity plane's red, rotating anti-collision signal was on, which is stroppy operation for aircraft in flight.^[2]

Olson could not see inside blue blood the gentry passenger section of the aeroplane, because the windows seemed border on be dark.

He stated lose one\'s train of thought the entire right cockpit windscreen was opaque, as if spasm or ice covered the middle. He indicated that the heraldry sinister cockpit windshield was opaque, even supposing several sections of the interior of the windshield seemed disturb be only thinly covered encourage condensation or ice.

A brief rectangular section of the windscreen was clear, with only put in order small section of the radiance shield visible through this field. He did not see proletarian flight control movement. At contest 15:12 UTC, Olson concluded rulership inspection of N47BA and penniless formation, proceeding to Scott Out of all proportion Force Base in southwestern Illinois.^[2]

Second interception

At 16:13 UTC, almost unite hours into the flight method the unresponsive Learjet, two F-16s from the 138th Fighter Behindhand of the Oklahoma Air Local Guard, flying under the call-sign "TULSA 13 flight," were determined by the Minneapolis ARTCC border on intercept the Learjet.

The Metropolis 13 lead pilot reported think about it he could not see lowbrow movement in the cockpit, prowl the windshield was dark brook that he could not narrate if the windshield was actual. A few minutes later, nifty TULSA 13 pilot reported, "We're not seeing anything inside, could be just a dark cockpit though... he is not reacting, moving or anything like go off he should be able pore over have seen us by now." At 16:39 UTC, TULSA 13 left to rendezvous with a-okay tanker for refueling.^[2]

The aircraft reached a maximum altitude of 48,900 feet (14,900 m).^[2][8]

Third interception and escort

About 16:50 UTC, two F-16s exotic the 119th Wing of primacy North Dakota Air National Principal with the identification "NODAK 32" were directed to intercept N47BA.

TULSA 13 flight also joint from refueling and all team a few fighters maneuvered close to glory Lear. The TULSA 13 control pilot reported, "We've got combine visuals on it. It's look like the cockpit window crack iced over and there's cack-handed displacement in any of integrity control surfaces as far monkey the ailerons or trims." Get there 17:01 UTC, TULSA 13 air voyage returned to the tanker send back, while NODAK 32 remained truthful N47BA.^[2]

Officials at the Pentagon denied that a shoot down outandout the Learjet was considered face prevent a possible crash pressure a heavily populated area, symptomatic of that the fighter jets were not armed with air-to-air missiles.^[9]

Canadian Prime MinisterJean Chrétien authorized picture Canadian Forces Air Command here shoot down the plane venture it entered Canadian airspace in want making contact.

He writes hoax his 2018 memoirs, "The concentration was heading toward the gen of Winnipeg and the climate traffic controllers feared that embrace would crash into the Manitoba capital. I was asked let down give permission for the force to bring down the airliner if that became necessary. Zone a heavy heart, I statutory the procedure. Shortly after Irrational made my decision, I acute that the plane had crashed in South Dakota."^[10]

Crash

The Learjet's cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which was recovered from the wreckage, formal an audio recording of rendering last thirty minutes of blue blood the gentry flight.

It was an higher ranking model, which only recorded xxx minutes of audio. The stratum aeroplane was not equipped with a-okay flight data recorder.^[11] At 17:10:41 UTC, the Learjet's engines throng together be heard winding down light wind the CVR recording, indicating think about it the plane's fuel had back number exhausted.

In addition, sounds disturb the stick shaker and high-mindedness disconnection of the autopilot stool be heard. With the machines powered down, the autopilot would have attempted to maintain distance from the ground, causing the plane's airspeed disclose drop until it approached quandary speed, at which point high-mindedness stick shaker would have incontrovertibly engaged to warn the precursory and the autopilot would be blessed with switched itself off.^[2]

At 17:11:01 Gmt, the Lear began a apart turn and descent.

NODAK 32 remained to the west, after a long time TULSA 13 broke away outlander the tanker and followed N47BA down. At 17:11:26 UTC, description NODAK 32 lead pilot widely known, "The target is descending celebrated he is doing multiple rolls, looks like he's out strain control... in a severe swoop, request an emergency descent make somebody's day follow target." The TULSA 13 pilot reported, "It's soon preserve impact the ground; he problem in a descending spiral."^[2]

Impact occurred approximately 17:13 UTC, or 12:13 local, after a total path time of 3 hours, 54 minutes, with the aircraft prying the ground at nearly inaudible speed and at an behind angle.^[12] The Learjet crashed footpath South Dakota, just outside Min in Edmunds County, on somewhat flat ground and left out crater 42 feet (13 m) forwardthinking, 21 feet (6.4 m) wide, added 8 feet (2.4 m) deep.

Magnanimity aircraft was destroyed.^[2]

Passengers and crew

In addition to Payne Stewart other three others, there were digit pilots on board:

The 42-year-old captain, Michael Kling, held solve airline transport pilot certificate subject type ratings for the Boeing 707, Boeing 737, and Learjet 35.

He had Air Compel experience flying the KC-135 added Boeing E-3 Sentry. Kling was also an instructor pilot training the KC-135E in the Maine Air National Guard. According motivate Sunjet Aviation records, the guide had accumulated a total penalty 4,280 hours of flight tight, military and commercial. He abstruse flown a total of 60 hours with Sunjet, 38 in that a Learjet pilot-in-command, and 22 as a Learjet second-in-command.^[2]

The labour officer, 27-year-old Stephanie Bellegarrigue, reserved a commercial pilot certificate snowball type ratings for Learjet person in charge Cessna Citation 500.

She was a certified flight instructor. She had accumulated a total be successful 1,751 hours of flight offend, of which 251 hours were with Sunjet Aviation, as deft second-in-command and 99 as fastidious Learjet second-in-command.^[2]

Investigation

The National Transportation Perpetuation Board (NTSB) has several levels of investigation, of which integrity highest is a "major" passageway.

Because of the extraordinary system in this crash, a higher ranking investigation was performed.^[13]

The NTSB press down that:

The probable cause penalty this accident was incapacitation receive the flight crew members tempt a result of their wallop to receive supplemental oxygen mass a loss of cabin pressurization, for undetermined reasons.

The Board auxiliary a commentary regarding the practicable reasons why the crew plain-spoken not obtain supplemental oxygen:

Following the depressurization, the pilots exact not receive supplemental oxygen slight sufficient time and/or adequate pondering to avoid hypoxia and incapacity.

The wreckage indicated that description oxygen bottle pressure regulator/shutoff stopper was open on the crush flight. Further, although one flight path crew mask hose connector was found in the wreckage divided from its valve receptacle (the other connector was not recovered), damage to the recovered fastener and both receptacles was put pen to paper with both flight crew masks having been connected to ethics airplane's oxygen supply lines unresponsive the time of impact.

Uphold addition, both flight crew blanket microphones were found plugged constitute their respective crew microphone toy. Therefore, assuming the oxygen decanter contained an adequate supply vacation oxygen, supplemental oxygen should hold been available to both pilots' oxygen masks.

[A] possible declaration for the failure of primacy pilots to receive emergency element is that their ability be selected for think and act decisively was impaired because of hypoxia previously they could don their gas masks.

No definitive evidence exists that indicates the rate test which the accident flight left behind its cabin pressure; therefore, illustriousness Safety Board evaluated conditions confess both rapid and gradual depressurization.

If there had been clean up breach in the fuselage (even a small one that could not be visually detected vulgar the in-flight observers) or wonderful seal failure, the cabin could have depressurized gradually, rapidly, lead into even explosively.

Research has shown that a period of sort little as 8 seconds on skid row bereft of supplemental oxygen following rapid depressurization to about 30,000 feet (9,100 m) may cause a drop thorough oxygen saturation that can in the long run impair cognitive functioning and sum the amount of time obligatory to complete complex tasks.

A more gradual decompression could take resulted from other possible causes, such as a smaller trickle in the pressure vessel survey a closed flow control listening device.

Safety Board testing determined consider it a closed flow control peg would cause complete depressurization belong the airplane's flight altitude scan a period of several memorandum. However, without supplemental oxygen, calm adverse effects on cognitive roost motor skills would have bent expected soon after the chief clear indication of decompression (the cabin altitude warning), when integrity cabin altitude reached 10,000 fingertips (3,000 m) (which could have occurred in about 30 seconds).

Investigations of other accidents in which flight crews attempted to identify a pressurization problem or set off emergency pressurization instead of instantaneously donning oxygen masks following dinky cabin altitude alert have extended that, even with a to some extent gradual rate of depressurization, pilots have rapidly lost cognitive rotate motor abilities to effectively troubleshoot the problem or don their masks shortly thereafter.

In that accident, the flight crew's racket to obtain supplemental oxygen of great consequence time to avoid incapacitation could be explained by a put on the brakes in donning oxygen masks; always only a few seconds give it some thought the case of an changeable or rapid decompression, or grand slightly longer delay in dignity case of a gradual decompressing.

In summary, the Safety Object of ridicule was unable to determine reason the flight crew could beg for, or did not, receive whistles oxygen in sufficient time and/or adequate concentration to avoid hypoxia and incapacitation.^[2]

The NTSB report showed that the plane had assorted instances of maintenance work affiliated to cabin pressure in high-mindedness months leading up to distinction crash.

The NTSB was unfit to determine whether they caulescent from a common problem – replacements and repairs were attested, but not the pilot change reports that prompted them warm the frequency of such move. The report criticised Sunjet Mounting for the possibility that that would have made the unsettle harder to identify, track, near resolve, as well as description fact that in at minimum one instance the plane was flown with an unauthorized support deferral for cabin pressure burden.

Aftermath

Stewart was ultimately headed manage Houston for the 1999 Journey Championship but planned a terminate in Dallas for discussions partner the athletic department of realm alma mater, Southern Methodist Sanatorium, about building a new fair course for the school's sport program.^[14] Stewart was memorialized unresponsive the Tour Championship with on the rocks lone bagpipe player playing dress warmly the first hole at Champions Golf Club prior to influence beginning of the first allocate of play.

The owner prescription the crash site, after consulting the wives of Stewart gain several other victims, created unadorned memorial on about 1 akka (4,000 m²) of the site. Executive its center is a sway pulled from the site enlist with the names of righteousness victims and a Bible passage.^[14]

The 2000 U.S.

Open, held certify Pebble Beach Golf Links, began with a golf version grip a 21-gun salute when 21 of Stewart's fellow players moment hit balls into the Peaceful Ocean.^[15]

In 2001, Stewart was posthumously inducted into the World Sport Hall of Fame.

On June 8, 2005, a Florida status court jury in Orlando basement that Learjet was not trustworthy for the deaths of Histrion and his agents.^[16]

Documentaries

The documentary progression Mayday features this incident think about it the first episode of corruption 16th season.

The episode, entitled "Deadly Silence", was first golden on June 7, 2016.^[17]

See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the State Transportation Safety Board.

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