Accident | |
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Date | 31 May 2014 |
Summary | Attempted takeoff with gust lock engaged due to pilot error, resulting in runway overrun |
Site | Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts 42°28′08″N 71°16′04″W / 42.46889°N 71.26778°W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation G-IV |
Operator | Arizin Ventures, LLC |
Registration | N121JM |
Flight origin | Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts |
Destination | Atlantic City International Airport, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Occupants | 7 |
Passengers | 4 |
Crew | 3 |
Fatalities | 7 |
Survivors | 0 |
American millionaire philanthropist Lewis Katz and six others were killed in a Gulfstream IV crash in Bedford, Massachusetts, on 31 May 2014. Katz, the co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and several major sports teams, had chartered the twinjet for a day trip from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Concord, Massachusetts. In addition to several personal friends, he had also invited Edward G. Rendell, a former governor of Pennsylvania, who was unable to accept.[1]
The flight crew consisted of pilot-in-command James McDowell, of Georgetown, Delaware; co-pilot Bauke "Mike" de Vries, of Marlton, New Jersey; and flight attendant Teresa Anne Benhoff, of Easton, Maryland.[2] The pilots attempted to take off with the airplane's gust lock inadvertently engaged, which resulted in the plane overrunning the runway and crashing into a ravine.[3] All seven occupants of the plane were killed.[4]
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