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A charter plane owned by charter firm East Coast Jets Inc., crashed while attempting to land at Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota on July 31, 2008. Denger a regional airport in southern part of the state.
The two pilots and six passengers on board the charter flight all died. The passengers were flying from Atlantic City, N.J., for a business meeting at an Owatonna glass manufacturing company. The aircraft was scheduled to fly to Crossville, Tennessee later that morning.
On Monday August 4, 2008, NTSB representatives gathered in a lab in Washington, D.C., to dissect what was captured on the cockpit voice recorder. Shortly after the crash, the NTSB also recovered the flight-management computer.
Steven Chealander, a board member for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said "We have witness accounts that it did touch down and [the pilot] was trying to land and during the landing roll out, for some reason they made a decision to try to take off and get airborne again," A trail of wreckage extended 500 feet beyond the runway.
Special attention is being paid to the "enhanced ground proximity warning system." Essentially, it warns pilots about their distance from terrain.
Honeywell manufactured the product. Pilot error is also a concern in the incident.
"We are looking at all aspects of the flight, not just focusing on any one thing," Chealander said.