There are people on here who are much more experienced than I am but I do have a few hundred hours on 525 series.
On all jets energy management is the big issue, a few knots too fast and you are carrying a lot of excess energy. Propellers make a huge difference, in a King Air you pull the power back and the speed bleeds away fast, on a CJ2 you pull the power back and not much happens, speed reduces very slowly.
Hot and high is a recipe for disaster. A typical and tragic accident was the Bin Laden jet at Blackbushe.
I got info that the plane is not damaged much and, as you know, all who were on board, are ok.
Belgian football player Dries Mertens (Napoli) was the passenger.
Airborne_Again wrote:
But why are bizjets hit harder?
Most are missing thrust reversers and also pulling the power back on short final does not slow it down like a prop plane. I have been a copilot once on a 525 landing on a very wet runway. The anti lock was in full operation but it was a wild ride. The plane I flew had a special 60° flap setting to help braking but it was not as effective as the beta on a turbo prop, not even close. On a car you have 4 wheels maybe similar size for 2 tons. Those things are 4 tons and more on usually 2 wheels with brakes only.
They also fly more frequently to airports they are not familiar with and without a 3D instrument approach, so more risk of getting the approach wrong and ending up too fast and/or high
quatrelle wrote:
Sounds like another case of …. too much momentum … not enough runway
Obviously that the direct reason for all overruns. But why are bizjets hit harder?
I can speculate that they often use airports with shorter runways.
Peter wrote:
For some reason, runway overrun seems to be the most popular accident type on bizjets. Why is that?
Sounds like another case of …. too much momentum … not enough runway
For some reason, runway overrun seems to be the most popular accident type on bizjets. Why is that?