The following information provides an awareness of problems that might be avoided in the future. The information is based on final reports by official investigative authorities on aircraft accidents and incidents.
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‘It’s Up to You’
Cessna Citation 550. Substantial damage. Seven minor injuries.
As the Citation II neared Manteo, North Carolina, U.S., during a business flight from Tampa, Florida, the morning of Oct. 1, 2010, the flight crew obtained weather reports indicating that the conditions at Manteo’s Dare County Regional Airport were deteriorating.
The last report, obtained from the airport’s automated weather observing system, said that the surface winds were from 350 degrees at 4 kt, visibility was 1.5 mi (2,400 m) in heavy rain and that there were broken ceilings at 400 ft and 1,000 ft, and an overcast at 1,300 ft.
The pilot-in-command (PIC), the pi…
