Mexico City – New Orleans – Washington DC

On June 18, 1994 at 06:25 AM, Mexico City – New Orleans – Washington DC experienced a crash involving Learjet 25, operated by Transportes Aéreos Ejecutivos - TAESA, with the event recorded near Washington-Dulles Virginia.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

12 people were known to be on board, 12 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 10, passenger fatalities: 10, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The airplane crashed 0.8 nm south of the threshold of the runway during an ILS approach in instrument meteorological conditions. The captain was not authorized to attempt the approach and was relatively inexperienced for an approach under the weather conditions. The captain failed to adhere to acceptable standards of airmanship during two unstabilized approaches. After the unsuccessful ils approach to runway 01R, the captain should have held for improvements in the weather, requested the runway 19L ILS, or proceeded to his alternate. An operating gpws aboard the airplane would have provided continuous warning to the crew for the last 64 seconds of flight and might have prevented the accident. All 10 passengers were Mexican citizens flying to Washington DC to assist a game of the World Football Championship.

Aircraft reference details include registration XA-BBA, MSN 25-223, year of manufacture 1977.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 38.9523°, -77.4535°.