The flight crew of a Skycharter Dassault Falcon 10 flew a fast, unstabilized approach to Toronto/Buttonville Municipal Airport (CYKZ) after a six-minute flight from a nearby airport, overshooting the runway centerline before the airplane touched down and veered off the pavement, accident investigators said.
Neither of the two pilots — the only people in the airplane — were injured in the June 17, 2011, accident, which damaged the airplane’s nose, right wing, slats and engines.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), in its final report on the crash, cited the “unstabilized approach with excessive airspeed” and “the lack of adherence to company standard operating procedures and crew resource management, as well as the non-completion of checklist items by the flight crew” among the accident’s causes and contributing factors.
The flight began with takeoff at 1500 local time from Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport. The crew completed t…
