Learjet 35
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 170; Flight Crew Total 6300; Flight Crew Type 1700
Distraction; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Weather; Aircraft; Human Factors
DURING AN APPARENT SNOW SQUALL I WAS LANDING AFTER A SUCCESSFUL ILS APPROACH. AS THE AIRCRAFT FLARED; WIND GUSTS AND LLWS SENT THE AIRCRAFT OUT OF LANDING ATTITUDE. ATTEMPTS TO REGAIN CONTROL WERE UNSUCCESSFUL; AND PILOT FLYING INITIATED A GO AROUND/MISSED APPROACH. UNBEKNOWNST TO THE CREW WHILE EXECUTING THE GO AROUND OUR LEFT WING TIP TANK STRUCK THE GROUND (BASED ON DAMAGE FOUND LATER AFTER LANDING). CREW DIVERTED FOR BETTER WEATHER; AND MORE FAVORABLE WINDS. UNEVENTFUL APPROACH AND LANDING AT DIVERSION AIRPORT.
A LR-35 Captain reported initiating a go around at a non towered airport due to wind shear and diverting where they discovered their left wing tip tank had struck the ground.