2000 East Coast Aviation Services British Aerospace Jetstream crash information
2000 East Coast Aviation Services British Aerospace Jetstream crash
A British Aerospace Jetstream 3101 similar to the crashed aircraft
Accident
Date
May 21, 2000
Summary
Fuel exhaustion
Site
Poconos Mountains, Bear Creek Township, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States 41°9′23″N75°45′53″W / 41.15639°N 75.76472°W / 41.15639; -75.76472
Aircraft
Aircraft type
British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 3101
Operator
East Coast Aviation Services d/b/a Executive Airlines
Call sign
16 ECHO JULIET
Registration
N16EJ
Flight origin
Atlantic City International Airport, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Destination
Scranton International Airport, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Passengers
17
Crew
2
Fatalities
19
Injuries
0
Survivors
0
On May 21, 2000, a British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 3101 operated by East Coast Aviation Services (known operationally as Executive Airlines) crashed into mountainous terrain in Bear Creek Township, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The plane was carrying 17 professional gamblers returning home from Caesar's Palace Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, along with 2 crew members. It was chartered by Caesar's Palace (New Jersey). All 19 passengers and crews on board were killed on impact. This accident, alongside the accident of Aerocaribe Flight 7831 were the accidents with the most fatalities involving the Jetstream 3101 airliner.
An investigation was conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board. It found that while the aircraft was approaching Scranton International Airport, it ran out of fuel. The investigation found that the crews were supposed to refill the aircraft with a total of 180 gallons of fuel. Instead, they refilled with 90 gallons.
Although the final report concluded that fuel exhaustion was the cause of the crash, it was not received warmly by some relatives of the victims. Several of them filled lawsuits against Executive Airlines and British Aerospace. Executive Airlines chief executive Michael Peragine questioned the NTSB report, claiming that it dismissed several other factors that might have been beneficial to the investigation.[1]
^"Probe: Fatal crash near Wilkes-Barre caused by plane running out of fuel". Pocono Record. 30 August 2002. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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