DCA11WA085 · Boeing 727 227
Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Boeing 727 227 · Incident
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA11WA085
- 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
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 727 227
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 727
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- C-GKFJ
- Operator
- Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of St. John's, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On July 16, 2011, at 0815 local time (1015 UTC), a Boeing 727-200, registration C-GKFJ, operated by Kelowna Flightcraft as a cargo flight from Monction, New Brunswick to St. John's, Newfoundland, ran off the the departure end of runway 29 at St. John's International Airport, Newfoundland, Canada, and came to rest approximately 200 feet off the end of the paved surface. The inboard tires of both main landing gear ruptured after departing the paved surface. Moderate rain had been reported at the airport prior to the landing. There were no injuries to the flightcrew, and damage to the airplane was minor.
The investigation is being conducted by the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada. The NTSB has appointed an Accredited Representative to assist the investigation as the state of manufacture under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.
All requests for information should be directed to:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada 200 Promenade du Portage Place du Centre, 4th Floor Hull, Quebec K1A 1K8 Canada
Website: http://www.tsb.gc.ca
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA11WA085
- Event ID
- 20110718X41105
- Case number
- DCA11WA085
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: eec240c9f6d0abbed8227652cb1b24d5ea365449250dda02ebf6df4199d0414d; retrieved 2026-09-15T16:27:51.065Z.