Crystal Air Aviation Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV incident
Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV · Incident
From an unrecorded airport to Gander International Airport (CYQX)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN11WA081
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
- Aircraft type
- Gulfstream G-IV
- 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
- N45AC
- Operator
- Crystal Air Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Gander International Airport (CYQX), Gander
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe 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
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 30, 2010, about 1934 coordinated universal time (UTC), a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, N45AC, owned by Ashton Aviation LLC and operated by Crystal Air Aviation, incurred no damage during a downwind landing overrun on runway 3 (10,200 feet by 200 feet wet asphalt) at the Gander International Airport (CYQX), near Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. The three certificated airline transport pilots, one flight attendant, and two passengers reported no injuries. The non-scheduled international passenger flight was conducted under the provision of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135. Instrument meteorological conditions to marginal visual meteorological conditions prevailed about the time of the incident and the flight was on an activated instrument flight rules flight plan. The flight departed from the Netherlands and was destined for CYQX as fuel stopover while en-route to Palm Beach International Airport, near West Palm Beach, Florida.
The investigation of this incident is under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Further information pertaining to this incident can be obtained from:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada Place du Centre 200 Promenade du Portage, 4th Floor Gatineau, Québec, Canada J8X 4B7
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Government of Canada.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN11WA081
- Event ID
- 20101124X13845
- Case number
- CEN11WA081
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: coordinates, damage. 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: f3d876c9e2e97c99510b4408130475444759cd593a23da2806ca2214af5acbea; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:34:56.807Z.