NTSB Probes Fatal GIV Crash at Hanscom Field
Aircraft exploded 2,000 feet beyond runway after reportedly failing to takeoff.

NTSB investigators are probing the May 31 fatal crash of a Gulfstream IV at Bedford-Hanscom Field Airport in Massachusetts. According to NTSB senior investigator Luke Schiada, the U.S.-registered aircraft (N121JM) crashed into a gully in a wooded area about 2,000 feet beyond the end of Hanscom’s Runway 11. It exploded and became engulfed in flames. All seven people on board–two pilots, a flight attendant and four passengers–were killed. An eyewitness told NTSB officials that the GIV, which was departing for Atlantic City, N.J., never got off the ground.