National Transportation Safety Board

摘要

On October 14, 2004, Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701 (doing business as Northwest Airlink), N8396A, a Bombardier CL-600-2B19 equipped with General Electric (GE) CF34-3 turbofan engines, crashed into a residential area about 2.5 miles south of Jefferson City Memorial Airport (JEF), Jefferson City, Missouri. The airplane was on a repositioning flight from Little Rock National Airport, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The captain and the first officer were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. No one on the ground was injured. The flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 on an instrument flight rules flight plan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.