![]() Schiada and his family immediately drove back to their home in Brooklyn, New York. Designated the investigator in charge (IIC), Schiada and an NTSB Go Team made arrangements to travel to the scene of the accident. ![]() The caller informed Schiada that an accident involving a business jet had taken place at about 9:40 p.m. NTSB senior air safety investigator Luke Schiada and his family were visiting a friend in New Jersey. The call came at 11:15 that Saturday night. An IFR flight plan was filed and night meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.” (Accident ID: ERA14MA271) The flight, which was destined for Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey, was conducted under Part 91. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and the post-crash fire. The two pilots, a flight attendant and four passengers died. The airplane careened through the paved overrun area and across a grassy area, collided with approach lights and a localizer antenna, passed through the airport’s perimeter fence and came to a stop in a ravine. Hanscom Field (BED) in Bedford, Massachusetts. On that May evening, at about 9:40 EDT, according to the NTSB report: “A Gulfstream GIV, N121JM, registered to SK Travel and operated by Arizin Ventures, crashed after it overran the end of Runway 11 during a rejected takeoff at Laurence G. This is the inside story of the landmark crash investigation that followed. That was certainly the case for investigators when the call came in on the evening of May 31, 2014, after a Gulfstream GIV crashed in Bedford, Massachusetts. For the NTSB investigators that form a crash “Go Team” - experts chosen from a broad range of NTSB aviation specialties - that often means unraveling the mysteries behind a series of fatal mistakes that led to an accident.
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