Accidents
Challenger pilot said yoke was jammed in TEB crash
The recently released NTSB preliminary report on the February 2 crash of a Bombardier Challenger 600 at New Jersey’s Teterboro (TEB) Airport was all too br

The recently released NTSB preliminary report on the February 2 crash of a Bombardier Challenger 600 at New Jersey’s Teterboro (TEB) Airport was all too brief, considering the stir the spectacular, though nonfatal, accident caused in the national media. On takeoff, Challenger N370V not only slid off the end of Runway 6 but went through the airport fence and hurtled across busy six-lane U.S. Route 46 at 7:17 a.m., striking cars and finally slamming into a warehouse across the highway, where it burst into flames. The accident sequence took 46 seconds, though the flight data recorder contains only 10 seconds of data.

In those 10 seconds, the flight data recorder showed the aircraft reached 153 knots (VR is typically about 134 knots). At the end of the recording, the airplane was traveling at 91 knots.

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