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Plane crashes into Md suburban house
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- A plane has crashed into a house in Maryland's Montgomery County. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue could not immediately say whether there was anyone in the Gaithersburg house at the time of the Monday crash or how many people were injured or killed. They say the house is on fire. The crash happened less than 1 mile from the Montgomery County Airpark. (hosted.ap.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Sad event. My wife went to school with the mother in the house. I can't even begin to imagine what the surviving husband and son have to go through and so close to Christmas. Godspeed to all those involved.
No matter what the outcome of the NTSB investigation, no pilot goes up to fly with the intent of crashing & not walking away from the flight. Aircraft crashes are few in comparison to the number of flights, but it still does not help those who have to live with the results. Heart felt prayers go out to all the families both on the ground & in the plane. Such a tragedy around a time when we are in a time when we need to be thankful for all of those around us.
I fly both the Phenom 100 and 300. In my and many of my peer's personal opinions, the 100 is somewhat under powered and too many times I have seen it overloaded by over zealous aircraft owners that have the taste for a Challenger 300 but with the budget of a Phenom 100. These aircraft are not particularly difficult to fly however, but as a couple of the recent Jet Suite Phenom 100 accidents have proven, they are definitely not forgiving when landing on a contaminated runway or with a tailwind. The electronic braking does it "own thinking" when it comes to trying to stop the darn thing so for awhile, at least, you (the pilot) are along for the ride on landing. I sure hope this aircraft wasn't overloaded. I'm shocked to hear about it crashing so close to the airport with all of these witnesses (not very accurate of course) saying they heard what sounded like the engines were "sputtering".....yeah, okay a Jet Engine "sputtering", maybe more like compressor stalls, but with such a bulletproof engine, I will really be anxious to hear what the NTSB will have to say about this particular accident. May the Lord be with those dearly departed.......
It's refreshing to hear someone who has some first hand knowledge in type if not the actual model. Thanks for a better feel for the incident. There is little doubt that the pic stalled the airplane now it's up to NTSB to find out why and how. I find it hard to believe the investigator saw the data from the FDR but hadn't heard the data from the CVR which quite possibly has the answers we all seek. He likes to land at low speed, but I don't know what the over the fence speed should have been for the 500. Maybe you can tell us how low 88 kts might have been
Boss, I'll go back and look but I thought he both FDR and CVR to work off of. Vref is 90kt so I don't think 88kt was all that slow, but that is just me.
I may have misread the article. I made a mistake once before.:-), I thought it said he hadn't istened to the CVR yet. I thought it a little unusual he would have looked at one and not the other.
Merry Christmas my friend, if I don't get a chance to talk to you between now and then.
Merry Christmas my friend, if I don't get a chance to talk to you between now and then.
http://youtu.be/vi6oFL0Is68. I think this is from his briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
Thanks. There is no doubt he had examined both recorders. The difference between 88 and 90 kts. explains nothing. Two "bad" landings at the same airport gives suspect to something uniquely environmental but it may be weather related. I've never used Gaithersburg. Anything I come up with would be pure speculation
Yeah, me too. The TBM crash was on another runway. It also notes in that briefing that there was a pax in the right seat but very little conversation and that the plane was certified for 1 man operation. I'm like you, 2 kts on the approach don't mean anything. Ain't no telling. Hopefully we'll find out down the road. I'm just guessing but I am betting mechanical of some type from which he could not recover. You might jump into Google and call that plane up. It has a few odd quirks not normally found on the street.
I tried to Google some things up yesterday but got interrupted. Maybe I'll have some clear time tonight. As I recall they all had a quirk or two. The old ones because the technology was emerging and the newer ones because they over used the technology. :-)
Yeah, I think most of it was ground stuff like the brakes and all but a year or 2 back they had an FAA mandate to put that stick pusher in. I don't know what caused that though. Don't remember.
Never paid much attention to any of their stuff. Too many airplanes too little time.