FTW82FA108 · Gulfstream American 690C
Gulfstream American 690C · Accident: airframe, component or system failure
From Frederick W. Smith International Airport (MEM) to Dallas Love Field (DAL)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW82FA108
- 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
- 1 · 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
Gulfstream American 690C
- Aircraft type
- Gulfstream American 690
- 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
- N5957K
- Operator
- Gulfstream American
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Frederick W. Smith International Airport (MEM), Memphis, TNTo Dallas Love Field (DAL), Dallas, TX
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Design stress limits of aircraft, exceeded
- Wing, spar › Overload
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT HAD BEEN ON SALES DEMONSTRATION FLTS AND WAS ON A DELIVERY FLT FROM MEMPHIS, TN TO DALLAS, TX. THE PLANE WAS OBSERVED DEPARTING AT 1550 CDT IN A MAX PERFORMANCE CLIMB. RADAR INFO FROM MODE C OF THE TRANSPONDER RETURNS INDICATED THAT THE ACFT CLIMBED FROM 1000 TO 16,000 FT IN 7 MIN AND 14 SEC. LEVEL FLT WAS INDICATED AT 16,300 FT FROM 1558:16 TO 1601:17 CDT. THE LAST ALT RETURN WAS FROM 16,000 FT AT 2201:07. TWO MORE RETURNS WERE RECEIVED AT 2201:49 & 2202:08, BUT WITH NO ALTITUDE READ-OUT. AT ABOUT THAT TIME, THE ACFT WAS OBSERVED SPIRALING DOWN, COUNTERCLOCKWISE, WITH A PORTION OF THE LEFT WING MISSING. THE WING TIP (OUTER WING PANEL OUTBOARD FROM ABOUT WING STATION 190), LEFT AILERON AND LEFT ENGINE TAIL CONE PANEL WERE FOUND ABOUT 3 MI FROM THE MAIN WRECKAGE IMPACT POINT. AN EXAMINATION REVEALED THAT THE WING PANEL SEPARATION OCCURRED UPWARD FROM POSITIVE OVERLOAD FORCES. NO EVIDENCE WAS FOUND OF FATIGUE OR PRE-EXISTING FAILURE. LIGHT TO MODERATE TURBULENCE WAS REPORTED BETWEEN 14,000 AND 18,000 FT MSL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW82FA108
- Event ID
- 20020917X02101
- Case number
- FTW82FA108
- 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: ed4f002edf6d88afec8853306aa704917dce3dddd03fd940c620834176f2f0ea; retrieved 2026-09-21T08:33:40.873Z.