- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: June 18, 1994
Time: 0625
Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Operator: TAESA
Flight #: ?
Route: Mexico City - Washington D.C.
AC Type: Learjet 25D
Registration: XA-BBA
cn / ln: 25D223
Aboard: 12   (passengers:10  crew:2)
Fatalities: 12   (passengers:10  crew:2)
Ground: 0
Summary: The aircraft crashed in poor weather conditions 0.8 nm south of the threshold of runway 1R at Dulles International Airport while attempting a ILS landing. Poor airmanship and relative inexperience of the captain in initiating and continuing an unstabilized instrument approach that led to a descent below the authorized altitude without visual contact with the runway environment. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the lack of a GPWS on the airplane.
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