Accidents
Recent Challenger overrun resembles TEB crash
New York Yankees’ catcher Yogi Berra might have said “it’s déjà vu all over again,” but it was a recent Challenger 600 accident that illustrated the well k

New York Yankees’ catcher Yogi Berra might have said “it’s déjà vu all over again,” but it was a recent Challenger 600 accident that illustrated the well known saying. Although the outcome of a March 9 incident at Tupelo Regional Airport, Miss., was less serious than the outcome of the crash of the same type of airplane at Teterboro Airport, N.J., a month earlier (AIN, March, page 8), the circumstances are eerily similar.

N660RM, registered to Romeo Mike Aviation of Deerfield Beach, Fla., ran off the end of Runway 36 and severed its nose landing gear when the crew aborted the takeoff after it was unable to rotate the airplane. VMC prevailed. The jet received substantial damage, but the two pilots and five passengers were not injured.

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