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MIA88IA196 · Learjet 24

17 Jun 1988 · W. PALM BEACH, FL, United States

Pegasus Jet Aviation Learjet 24 · Incident: hard landing

From Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE) to an unrecorded destination

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Event

NTSB case
MIA88IA196
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
Incident
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

Learjet 24

Aircraft type
Learjet 24
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
N29LA
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE), Fort Lauderdale, FLTo not recorded
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 · landing roll
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
Minor

Cause areas

  • Pilot in command › Airspeed, excessive
  • Pilot in command › Flare, improper
  • Pilot in command › Planned approach, improper
  • Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

THE ACFT DEPARTED FORT LAUDERDALE EXECUTIVE ARPT ON A 14 CFR PART 91 POSITIONING FLIGHT TO PICK UP A PATIENT IN WEST PALM BEACH FL, FOR A 14 CFR PART 135 AIR AMBULANCE FLIGHT TO ROCHESTER NEW YORK. THE PLT STATED THAT ON LANDING THE ACFT FLOATED APRX 4000 FEET DOWN THE 7,991 FOOT RUNWAY AT WEST PALM BEACH INT'L ARPT AND BEFORE HE COULD STOP THE ACFT IT RAN ABOUT 30 FEET OFF THE END. POST INCIDENT EXAMINATION AND HARD LANDING INSPECTION WAS MADE WITH NO DISCREPANCIES NOTED. THE ONLY DAMAGE INCURRED BY THE ACFT WAS A BLOWN TIRE.

Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record MIA88IA196
Event ID
20001213X26020
Case number
MIA88IA196
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: cb0de8b42f57c59539f915c23c249619b0dc14a7f909342b7ca549541ee3d594; retrieved 2026-09-23T09:59:36.698Z.