NTSB TO RELEASE FACTUAL REPORTS ON BUSINESS JET RUNWAY OVERRUN ACCIDENT

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Title: NTSB TO RELEASE FACTUAL REPORTS ON BUSINESS JET RUNWAY OVERRUN ACCIDENT

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                       NTSB ADVISORY

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National Transportation Safety Board

Washington, DC 20594

August 6, 2009

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NTSB TO RELEASE FACTUAL REPORTS ON BUSINESS JET RUNWAY OVERRUN ACCIDENT

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As part of its continuing investigation into an accident in

which a business jet overran the runway during takeoff in

Columbia, South Carolina, killing four and injuring two, the

National Transportation Safety Board will open the public

accident docket on Friday, August 7, 2009.

On September 19, 2008, at 11:53 p.m. EDT, a Bombardier

Learjet 60 (N999LJ), operated by Global Exec Aviation,

overran runway 11 while departing Columbia Metropolitan

Airport. The pilot, copilot, and two of the four passengers

were killed; the two other passengers were seriously

injured. The aircraft was destroyed by a postcrash fire. The

chartered passenger flight was bound for Van Nuys,

California.

The information being released is factual in nature and does

not provide any analysis. It will include investigative

group factual reports, the transcript of the cockpit voice

recorder, and other documents from the investigation.  All

of these materials will be made available at 9:00 a.m. EDT

on August 7th on the following page of the Safety Board’s

website:

http://www.ntsb.gov/Info/foia_fri-dockets.htm

Additional material will be added to the docket as it

becomes available. Analysis of the accident, along with

conclusions and a determination of probable cause, will come

at a later date when the final report on the investigation

is completed.

This will be a document release only; no interviews will be

conducted.

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NTSB Media Contact: Peter Knudson

peter.knudson@xxxxxxxx

(202) 314-6100

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