SEA95LA059 · Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A
Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A · Accident: hard landing
From Yampa Valley Airport (HDN) to Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport (GCC)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA95LA059
- 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
Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A
- Aircraft type
- Israel 1124
- 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
- N311BR
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Yampa Valley Airport (HDN), Hayden, COTo Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport (GCC)
- 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
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- 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
- Hard landing
- 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
- Pilot in command › Proper descent rate, not attained
- Pilot in command › Spoiler retraction, not performed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE CAPTAIN REPORTED ENTERING HOLDING AT DERYK AT 1758:50, ABEAM AT 1800:17, AND STARTING HIS TURN BACK IN TO THE FAF AT 1801:21. AT 1803:12 HE REPORTED ON THE GLIDE SLOPE AND CALLED FOR THE GEAR DOWN BUT WAS ADVISED BY THE FIRST OFFICER (FO) HE WAS TOO FAST. HE THEN EXTENDED THE SPOILERS. THE GEAR WAS EXTENDED AT 1803:56 AND THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN AT 1804:41. THE AIRCRAFT PICKED UP ICE DURING THE DARK NIGHT APPROACH AND THE RUNWAY WAS SNOW COVERED WITH FAIR TO POOR BRAKING REPORTED. THE SPOILERS WERE FOUND EXTENDED SUBSEQUENT TO THE LANDING. THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN SHORT OF THE RUNWAY AND THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR SEPARATED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE FO CONDUCTED THE PRE-LANDING CHECKLIST SILENTLY AND NEITHER PILOT SAW THE SPOILER EXTENDED ANNUNCIATOR LIGHT. THE COMPANY OVERSEEING BOTH PILOTS PROVIDED NO COCKPIT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING.
Probable cause
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S FAILURE TO RETRACT THE SPOILERS AND THE CONSEQUENT HIGH SINK RATE ON AN UNSTABILIZED FINAL APPROACH. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: ICING CONDITIONS, BOTH PILOTS DIVERTED ATTENTION, INADEQUATE FLIGHT CREW COORDINATION, AND INADEQUATE (COCKPIT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT) TRAINING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA95LA059
- Event ID
- 20001207X03192
- Case number
- SEA95LA059
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1995-03-04.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 39943412e5d6e492270d3c8de9f65476782d0166d4a9b86a69765186f78cf8bb; retrieved 2026-09-21T22:22:33.586Z.