LAX94LA356 · Hawker Siddeley HS-125-700A HS-125-700
Navellier Management Hawker Siddeley HS-125-700A HS-125-700 · Accident: airframe, component or system failure during takeoff
From Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) to Scottsdale Airport (SDL)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX94LA356
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Hawker Siddeley HS-125-700A HS-125-700
- Aircraft type
- Hawker Siddeley HS-125
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N311NW
- Operator
- Navellier Management
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO)To Scottsdale Airport (SDL), Scottsdale, AZ
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff · roll/run
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Fuel system, line › Ruptured
- Hydraulic system, line › Ruptured
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE CAPTAIN SAID THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS NEAR V1/VR IN THE TAKEOFF GROUND ROLL WHEN HE HEARD A LOUD BANG FOLLOWED BY A VIBRATION IN THE AIRFRAME. A SECOND LOUD BANG WAS THEN HEARD AS THE CAPTAIN ABORTED THE TAKEOFF. THE OCCUPANTS EVACUATED THE AIRCRAFT AFTER IT CAME TO A STOP ON A TAXIWAY. A FIRE WAS OBSERVED ON THE RIGHT WHEELS AND IN THE WHEEL WELL. AIRPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT UNITS RESPONDED AND EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE. INSPECTION REVEALED THAT BOTH RIGHT MAIN GEAR TIRES HAD BLOWN OUT DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL. THE GROUND FIRE WAS FOUND TO HAVE SPREAD FROM THE WHEEL WELL INTO THE LEFT WING ROOT AREA. AN FAA INSPECTOR EXAMINED THE AIRCRAFT AND REPORTED THAT THE HYDRAULIC AND FUEL LINES ROUTED THROUGH THE RIGHT WHEEL WELL AREA WERE SEVERED. THE FUSELAGE FUEL TANK WAS FOUND PUNCTURED. THE HYDRAULIC SYSTEM USES MIL 5606 FLUID. THE AREA OF THE RUNWAY WHERE THE INITIAL TIRE FAILURE OCCURRED IS NEAR AN AREA OF CONSTRUCTION ON THE AIRPORT TAXIWAYS. THE DEBRIS FROM THE RUNWAY WAS GATHERED UP BY AIRPORT PERSONNEL AND DISPOSED OF PRIOR TO EXAMINATION BY FAA INSPECTORS.
Probable cause
the rupture of fuel and hydraulic lines and the fuselage fuel tank, by tire pieces during the tire blow-out sequence.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX94LA356
- Event ID
- 20001206X02284
- Case number
- LAX94LA356
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e45f46c276c564eb1629a870c4b6e57eba6d914d40342136e972e54e9f099f81; retrieved 2026-09-23T00:41:35.790Z.