Little Rock – Minneapolis

On October 14, 2004 at 10:15 PM, Little Rock – Minneapolis experienced a crash involving Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200, operated by Northwest Airlink, with the event recorded near Jefferson City Missouri.

The flight was categorized as ferry and the reported phase was flight at a city crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 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: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On October 14, 2004, about 2215:06 central daylight time, Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701 (doing business as Northwest Airlink), a Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N8396A, crashed into a residential area about 2.5 miles south of Jefferson City Memorial Airport, Jefferson City, Missouri. The airplane was on a repositioning flight from Little Rock National Airport, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, Minnesota. During the flight, both engines flamed out after a pilot-induced aerodynamic stall and were unable to be restarted. The captain and the first officer were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. No one on the ground was injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration N8396A, MSN 7396, year of manufacture 2000.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 38.5774°, -92.1724°.