Individually Owned: 151,845
Corporate Owned: 143,699
Teterboro, New Jersey Airport
Aircraft Accident/Incident Report
Teterboro, New Jersey 07608
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 19:10 EDT
NTSB Narrative Summary Released at Completion of Accident
Two operational errors occurred involving an F900, a C680 and a C550. The F900 had departed from runway 24 and, after reporting an abnormal fuel indicator light, stated that he needed to return to the airport. The tower local controller directed the F900 to enter the right downwind leg of the traffic pattern for runway 19 and attempted to sequence the airplane in front of the C680 that was arriving on a straight-in approach to runway 19. The C680 was directed to maintain minimum approach speed for sequencing behind the F900 and was notified of the F900 on the downwind leg. The local controller sequenced the F900 to follow an aircraft on short final for runway 19, but the F900 overshot the final approach course for runway 19 and was subsequently directed to enter the right base leg of the pattern for runway 24. The F900 and the C680 conflicted with each other with closest proximity being .6 miles lateral and 100 feet vertical.
Seeing the developing conflict between the C680 and the C550, approach control directed the C550 to climb to 3000 feet and asked the local controller what heading the C680 was on. When asked, the C680 reported that his heading was “forty degrees continuing a turn to the left.” The local controller advised the front line manager that the C680 was heading 040 degrees, which was relayed to the approach controller, who then directed the local controller to have the C680 climb to 3000 feet. The tower controller then relayed the instruction and, thinking the C680 was on a steady heading, directed the C680 to commence an immediate right turn to de-conflict from the C550. The crew of the C680 advised they were in a hard left turn with traffic to their right and did not comply with the instruction. The C680 and C550 came within 200 feet vertical and 0.44 miles lateral of each other.
NTSB Probable Cause Narrative
The pilot of the F900 overshooting of the final approach course, which conflicted with traffic in the pattern. Contributing to the accident was the lack of appropriate coordination between the tower controller and the approach controller.
Event Information
| Type of Event | Incident |
| Event Date | 10/20/2010 |
| Event Day of the Week | Wednesday |
| Time of Event | 1910 |
| Event Time Zone | Eastern Daylight Time |
| Event City | Teterboro |
| Event State | NEW JERSEY |
| Event Country | -- |
| Zipcode of the event site | 07608 |
| Event Date Year | 2010 |
| Event Date Month | 10 |
| MidAir Collision Indicator | No |
| On Ground Collision occurred ? | No |
| Event Location Latitude | 405100N |
| Event Location Longitude | 0740339W |
| Event Location Airport | Teterboro, New Jersey |
| Event Location Nearest Airport ID | TEB |
| Indicates whether the acc/inc occurred off or on an airport | Off Airport/Airstrip |
| Distance from airport in statute miles | 4 |
| Degrees magnetic from airport | -- |
| Airport Elevation | 9 |
| Weather Briefing Completeness | -- |
| Investigator's weather source | Weather Observation Facility |
| Time of the weather observation | 1851 Eastern Daylight Time |
| Direction of event from weather observation facility (degrees) | -- |
| Weather Observation Facility ID | KTEB |
| Elevation of weather observation facility | -- |
| Distance of event from weather observation facility (units?) | -- |
| Time Zone of the weather observation | EDT |
| Lighting Conditions | Night |
| Lowest Ceiling Height | -- |
| Lowest Non-Ceiling Height | -- |
| Sky/Lowest/Cloud Conditions | Clear |
| Sky Condition for Lowest Ceiling | Indefinite (V V) |
| Visibility Runway Visual Range (Feet) | -- |
| Visibility Runway Visual Value (Statute Miles) | -- |
| Visibility (Statute Miles) | 10 |
| Air Temperature at event time (in degrees celsius) | 12 |
| Dew Point at event time (in degress fahrenheit) | 5 |
| Wind Direction (degrees magnetic) | 180 |
| Variable Wind Indicator | Wind direction could be determined |
| Wind Speed (knots) | 3 |
| Wind Velocity Indicator | -- |
| Wind Gust Indicator | Not Gusting |
| Wind Gust (knots) | -- |
| Altimeter Setting at event time (in. Hg) | 29.8 |
| Density Altitude (feet) | -- |
| Intensity of Precipitation | -- |
| METAR weather report | METAR KTEB 202251Z 18003KT 10SM CLR 12/05 A2980 RM |
| Event Highest Injury | None |
| On Ground, Fatal Injuries | -- |
| On Ground, Minor Injuries | -- |
| On Ground, Serious Injuries | -- |
| Injury Total Fatal | -- |
| Injury Total Minor | -- |
| Injury Total None | 5 |
| Injury Total Serious | -- |
| Injury Total All | -- |
| Investigating Agency | NTSB |
| NTSB Docket Number (internal use) | 28811 |
| NTSB Notification Source | FAA |
| NTSB Notification Date | -- |
| NTSB Notification Time | -- |
| Fiche Number and/or location -used to find docket information | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Sep 19 2011 10:47AM |
| User who most recently changed record | broda |
| Basic weather conditions | Visual Meteorological Cond |
| FAA District Office | -- |
Aircraft Involved |
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|---|---|---|---|
Aircraft #1 |
Aircraft #2 |
Aircraft #3 |
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| Aircraft Registration Number | -- | -- | -- |
| NTSB Number | OPS11IA054A | OPS11IA054B | OPS11IA054C |
| Missing Aircraft Indicator | -- | -- | -- |
| Federal Aviation Reg. Part | -- | -- | -- |
| Type of Flight Plan filed | IFR | IFR | Unknown |
| Flight plan Was Activated? | Yes | Yes | -- |
| Damage | None | None | None |
| Aircraft Fire | None | None | None |
| Aircraft Explosion | None | None | None |
| Aircraft Manufacturer's Full Name | DASSAULT | CESSNA | CESSNA |
| Aircraft Model | FALCON900EX | 680 | S550 |
| Aircraft Series Identifier | NO SERIES | -- | -- |
| Aircraft Serial Number | -- | 680-0007 | S550-0038 |
| Certified Max Gross Weight | -- | -- | -- |
| Aircraft Category | -- | Airplane | Airplane |
| Aircraft Registration Class | -- | -- | -- |
| Aircraft is a homebuilt? | -- | No | No |
| Flight Crew Seats | -- | -- | -- |
| Cabin Crew Seats | -- | -- | -- |
| Passenger Seats | -- | -- | -- |
| Total number of seats on the aircraft | -- | 9 | 8 |
| Number of Engines | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Fixed gear or retractable gear | Fixed | Fixed | Fixed |
| Aircraft, Type of Last Inspection | -- | -- | -- |
| Date of Last Inspection | -- | -- | -- |
| Airframe hours since last inspection | -- | -- | -- |
| Airframe Hours | -- | -- | -- |
| ELT Installed | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| ELT Activated | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| ELT Aided Location of Event Site | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| ELT Type | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Aircraft Owner Name | -- | -- | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Street Address | Unknown | 5 AMERICAN LN | 2101 COUNTY ROAD 6 W |
| Aircraft Owner City | Amsterdam | GREENWICH | ELKHART |
| Aircraft Owner State | -- | CT | IN |
| Aircraft Owner Country | NL | USA | USA |
| Aircraft Owner Zipcode | -- | 06831-2551 | 46514 |
| Operator is an individual? | No | No | No |
| Operator Name | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator Same as Owner? | No | No | No |
| Operator Is Doing Business As | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator Address Same as Owner? | No | No | No |
| Operator Street Address | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Operator City | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator State | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator Country | USA | USA | USA |
| Operator Zip code | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator Code | -- | -- | -- |
| Owner has at least one certificate | None | None | None |
| Other Operator of large aircraft? | No | No | No |
| Certified for Part 133 or 137 Operation | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator Certificate Number | -- | -- | -- |
| Indicates whether an air carrier operation was scheduled or not | -- | -- | -- |
| Indicates Domestic or International Flight | -- | -- | -- |
| Operator carrying Pax/Cargo/Mail | -- | -- | -- |
| Type of Flying (Per_Bus / Primary) | -- | Unknown | -- |
| Second Pilot on Board | -- | -- | -- |
| Departure Point Same as Event | No | No | No |
| Departure Airport Code | KTEB | KITH | -- |
| Departure City | Teterboro | Ithaca | Unknown |
| Departure State | NJ | NY | -- |
| Departure Country | USA | USA | USA |
| Departure Time | 1910 | 1826 | -- |
| Departure Time Zone | EST | EDT | -- |
| Destination Same as Local Flt | -- | crash at destination city | crash at destination city |
| Destination Airport Code | KBOS | -- | -- |
| Destination City | Boston | Teterboro | Teterboro |
| Destination State | MA | NJ | NJ |
| Destination Country | USA | USA | USA |
| Specific Phase of Flight | -- | -- | -- |
| Report sent to ICAO? | -- | -- | -- |
| Evacuation occurred | -- | -- | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Aug 29 2011 1:55PM | Aug 29 2011 1:53PM | Aug 29 2011 1:53PM |
| User who most recently changed record | bard | bard | bard |
| Since inspection or accident | -- | -- | -- |
| Event Location Runway Number and Location | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Runway Length | -- | -- | -- |
| Runway Width | -- | -- | -- |
| Sight Seeing flight | -- | -- | -- |
| Air Medical Flight | -- | -- | -- |
| Medical Flight | -- | -- | -- |