NMAC BY LTT JET WITH OBSTRUCTION TWR UNCHARTED N A NIGHT OP. EVASIVE ACTION TURN DURING A HIGH RATE OF DSCNT.

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RPT CONCERNING A NEAR MISS WITH A 1168 FT TWR OCCURRING DURING A VISUAL APCH TO RWY 01 AT MKC FEB 1994. ON FEBRUARY 1994 WE DEPARTED TEB ON A FAR PART 135 FLT WITH 5 PAX ABOARD LEAR JET 55. I WAS LISTED AS PIC ALTHOUGH I WAS FLYING WITH ANOTHER FULLY QUALIFIED CAPT IN THE L SEAT; PF. UPON ARR INTO THE KANSAS CITY AREA AT APPROX XX15 LCL TIME WE RECEIVED THE CURRENT ATIS WHICH RPTED CLR AND 7 MI; USING THE ILS 03 LNDG 01. WE PLANNED FOR AN ILS APCH TO RWY 03 WITH A CIRCLE TO LAND ON RWY 01 AT MKC ARPT. AS I HAVE FLOWN INTO MKC SEVERAL TIMES AND THIS WAS PF'S FIRST TIME INTO THIS ARPT; I BRIEFED HIM ON THE OBSTRUCTIONS S OF THE ARPT AND WE NOTED THE 2051 FT TWR DEPICTED ON THE ILS 03 APCH CHART (11-2). WE NOTED ITS PROX TO THE ARPT AND COMMENTED THAT WE NEEDED TO MANEUVER WELL CLR OF IT. WE WERE RECEIVING VECTORS FROM MKC APCH AND WERE TURNED TO A HDG OF 350 AND ADVISED THAT THIS WAS A VECTOR FOR VISUAL TO RWY 01. WE DSNDED TO 3000 FT AS INSTRUCTED BY ATC. IT WAS DARK AND WE HAD LOST VISUAL CONTACT WITH MKC ARPT DURING THE VECTORING. WHEN MKC APCH TURNED US TO A HDG OF 350 I COMMENTED TO PF THAT I HAD THE 2051 FT TWR IN SIGHT AND WE WERE WELL CLR OF IT. HE LOOKED AT THE TWR AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE SAW IT ALSO. ON THE 350 HDG ATC ADVISED THAT MKC DOWNTOWN ARPT WAS 12 O'CLOCK AND 5 MI. I ASKED PF IF HE HAD THE ARPT IN SIGHT AND HE REPLIED THAT HE ONLY HAD A SET OF REIL LIGHTS AND WE COULD NOT CONFIRM THAT IT WAS MKC ARPT. I REPLIED TO MKC APCH THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THE ARPT IN SIGHT. APCH ADVISED THAT THE ARPT WAS AT THE BEND IN THE RIVER. THIS WAS OF NO HELP AS IT WAS DARK ENOUGH THAT NO GND COLORS COULD BE SEEN. SHORTLY AFTER THAT I PICKED UP THE RWY LIGHTS FOR 03 AND ASKED PF IF HE SAW THE RWY; TO WHICH HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE HAD THE RWY. I THEN ADVISED APCH THAT WE HAD RWY 01 IN SIGHT. APCH CLRED US FOR THE VISUAL AND TURNED US OVER TO MKC TWR. BOTH PF AND I NOTED THAT WE WERE HIGH FOR A NORMAL APCH AND WE BEGAN ABOUT A 1500 FPM DSCNT TOWARD THE RWY. I HAD CONTACTED MKC TWR AND THEY CLRED US TO LAND RWY 01. WE WERE IN THE LNDG CONFIN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FULL FLAPS WHICH PF CALLED FOR AND I WAS SETTING WHEN ONE OF THE PAX YELLED 'YOU GUYS SEE THAT TWR.' ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY PF ROLLED THE ACFT INTO A RAPID 45 DEG R BANK. I LOOKED UP FROM SETTING THE FLAPS TO SEE A FLASH OF RED LIGHT GO BY. I COULD NOT JUDGE THE DISTANCE AS I ONLY SAW A FLASH OF LIGHT FOR A FRACTION OF A SECOND. HOWEVER; PF ESTIMATED THAT WE WERE CLOSER THAN 50 FT AND THE ONE PAX WHO SAW THE TWR SAID WE WERE 'VERY CLOSE.' AFTER A NORMAL LNDG AND THE PAX HAD DEPARTED I CALLED MKC TWR AND SPOKE TO SOMEONE WHO WAS WORKING US INBOUND. HE COMMENTED THAT THEY ALL THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO HIT THAT TWR AND THAT THEY THOUGHT WE WERE A COUPLE OF COWBOYS TRYING TO FLY BTWN THE 2 TWRS. I THEN CALLED THE APCH CTL AND ADVISED THEM THAT WE HAD A NEAR MISS WITH A TWR ON FINAL TO 01. I WAS ADVISED THAT ONCE CLRED FOR A VISUAL I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR OBSTRUCTION CLRNC AND THAT THE OBSTRUCTION IS CHARTED. I ACKNOWLEDGED MY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ASKED TO TALK TO THE SUPVR. I WAS TRANSFERRED TO MR. X WHO EXPRESSED SOME CONCERN AT THE SIT AND ADVISED ME THAT THEY NORMALLY DON'T VECTOR ACFT THROUGH THAT AREA. I RECEIVED A CALL FROM MR. Y THE NEXT MORNING AS A FOLLOW-UP AND HE ADVISED ME THAT THEY WERE TAKING ACTIONS TO PREVENT CTLRS FROM VECTORING ACFT INTO THAT AREA. WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE ARPT THE NEXT MORNING I REVIEWED THAT APCH CHART AGAIN AND MUCH TO MY SURPRISE THE TWR WAS NOT SHOWN. I PURCHASED A SECTIONAL CHART WHICH CLRLY SHOWED THIS TWR. I CALLED CHART MAKER AND SPOKE TO MR. Z WHO NOTED THAT THE TWR HAD BEEN OMITTED FROM THE APCH CHARTS.