The NTSB preliminary report indicates that multiple witnesses reported that the aircraft touched down and deployed reversers. The reversers when then seen to be stowed and a go-around attempted before the aircraft struck the localizer platform. Full text follows:
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NTSB Identification: SEA06MA047
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Tuesday, January 24, 2006 in Carlsbad, CA
Aircraft: Cessna 560, registration: N86CE
Injuries: 4 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.
On January 24, 2006, approximately 0640 Pacific standard time, a Cessna Citation 560, N86CE, impacted the localizer antenna platform during an apparent aborted landing on Runway 24 at McClellan-Palomar Airport, Carlsbad, California. The two airline transport pilots and their two passengers received fatal injuries, and the aircraft, which was owned by GOSHIP AIR, LLC, of Ketchum, Idaho, was destroyed by the impact sequence and the post crash fire. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal transportation flight, which departed Friedman Memorial Airport, Hailey, Idaho, at 0600 mountain standard time, had canceled its IFR flight plan, and was executing a visual approach in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident.
According to numerous witnesses, the aircraft came across the runway threshold at a speed significantly higher than they had observed with other aircraft of the same or similar model. It reportedly touched down more than 1,500 feet down the runway, whereupon the thrust reverses were deployed and then ultimately stowed. The aircraft then lifted off the surface near the departure end of the runway, but its landing gear impacted the localizer platform structure, and its left wing tip collided with a platform access ladder attached to the far left side of the platform. The aircraft then traveled approximately 400 feet passed that point, whereupon it settled to the terrain, and then impacted much of the external surface of a 150 foot long commercial self-storage building. Just after coming to rest at the west end of the storage building, the aircraft burst into flames, and except for the empennage and engines, was almost totally consumed by the ensuing fire.
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