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Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 4951

25 Sept 2010 · Unknown location

Bombardier CL600 2D24 900

From Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to Westchester County Airport (HPN)

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Event

NTSB case
ENG10IA053
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
Event fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
64
Survivors
64
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
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
Airline
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

Bombardier CL600 2D24 900

Aircraft type
Bombardier CL600
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
N133EV
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Atlanta, GATo Westchester County Airport (HPN), White Plains, NY
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 121: Air Carrier
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
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
Landing gear not configured
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 · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.

From the Wikipedia article

Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 4951 was a Bombardier CRJ900 carrying 60 passengers and 4 crew members on board on a flight from Atlanta to White Plains on 25 September 2010, commanded by Captain Jack Howard Conroyd Jr. (English: Jack Howard Conroyd, Jr.), aged 55 (born 24 March 1955 in the city of Hampton), with 8 years of experience with the United States Air Force and 24 years as a pilot for the company, and First Officer Larkin Ray Newby (English: Larkin Ray Newby), aged 33 (born 16 November 1976 in the city of Bellevue), with 12 years of experience with the company.

On approach to White Plains Airport the aircraft's crew lowered the landing gear, but the right rear wheel stayed stuck in the aircraft; the cockpit crew then tried to lower the right rear wheel, but it did not come down. The crew then thought it was a fault in the landing gear light, but air traffic control at White Plains Airport confirmed that the aircraft's right rear wheel had not come down, so the crew decided to fly to an airport with longer runways, and at that point John F. Kennedy International Airport was the only airport, so the crew decided to land at a speed of 135 knots/h (250 km/h). Passenger Chase Benzenberg, aged 45, was filming with his mobile phone what was happening on board the aircraft. The aircraft landed and came to a stop, and all 64 passengers and crew survived unharmed.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “خطوط أتلانتيك ساوث إيست الجوية الرحلة 4951” (revision 62744962, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

NTSB narrative

The right main landing gear door was found restricted against the fuselage wheel well body fairing. During a test gear swing following the incident, the door jammed again. According to the manufacturer, if improperly positioned, the door seal could wear and eventually cause the door to become jammed against the fairing and prevent extension of the main landing gear.

Probable cause

The probable cause of the incident was the restriction of the right main landing gear door against the fuselage wheel well body fairing which prevented the extension of the right main landing gear.

Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset

Sources

Arabic Wikipedia article: خطوط أتلانتيك ساوث إيست الجوية الرحلة 4951
Article
خطوط أتلانتيك ساوث إيست الجوية الرحلة 4951
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
62744962 · 2023-06-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q30083003
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ENG10IA053
Event ID
20100928X12406
Case number
ENG10IA053
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
Record
ar Wikipedia article "خطوط أتلانتيك ساوث إيست الجوية الرحلة 4951" (page 3640204, revision 62744962), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ENG10IA053 (events / aircraft)
Date
NTSB record ENG10IA053: NTSB narrative opening date, consistent with the API date and time (local date)
Place and country
Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site; country from NTSB record ENG10IA053
Map position
NTSB record ENG10IA053: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
Aircraft, operator and route
NTSB record ENG10IA053: aircraft; gaps from Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
NTSB record ENG10IA053: operated under Part 121: Air Carrier
Fatalities
NTSB record ENG10IA053: NTSB API totalFatal
Ground fatalities
NTSB record ENG10IA053: events.inj_f_grnd
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (3)
  • One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 4951" and NTSB case ENG10IA053, matched by the same flight number and date. For this US event the NTSB's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
  • Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
  • The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2010-09-26.