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Dale Earnhardt Jr's Citation Latitude Crashes on Landing (all crew and passengers okay)
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NTSB issued a preliminary report on the crash today. https://www.scribd.com/document/422936870/Elizabethton-Plane-Crash-Prelim-Report#from_embed
NTSB ;prelininary report released today: https://www.scribd.com/document/422938295/Dale-Earnhardt-Jr-Plane-Crash-Report#from_embed
Interesting reading Bryon but the surveillance video and CVR will tell the rest of the story as Mr. Harvey used to say.
The Gwhiz 5000 avionics and the final report will tell the rest of the story Bill, and the prelim's always state that they may contain inaccuracies that will be corrected in the final report. The panel and avionics bay were evidently uncorrupted, thus, will reveal most of what would have been revealed by a nonexistent FDR. 9 pax seats. When the final story comes out, in a year or two, it might read Somethin about no flight plan filed with a reported ceiling at the destination, maybe ref and 20 over the fence, enough fuel for three trips and three bounces that a basic cfi would not countenance. The part that I can't comprehend is two ATPs with a combined 16,000 TT and time in the airplane and experience at this airport doin that. The ashes and the rest speak for themselves. They did it.
Here is one we discussed at length and the final report is pretty much a match for the early speculation of us morons who spoke out before the final report.
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/hawker-crash-chain-culpability/#.XWBLPEd7m00
Here is one we discussed at length and the final report is pretty much a match for the early speculation of us morons who spoke out before the final report.
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/hawker-crash-chain-culpability/#.XWBLPEd7m00
Thanks for the article on the Hawker bentwing. It does back up our early "thoughts." As far as the Earnhardt crash, I'm still not sure that excess speed was involved. Too much speed rarely results in a hard landing but certainly a long landing. Coming in steep and slow like that runway might entice a crew to do, and trying to round out a little high because of the decent rate is excessive usually sets up a big splat that could cause damage and send the aircraft out of control and basically bouncing down the runway due to lack of aerodynamic control. The overrun was due to the power of the attempted go around after the second severe bounce. Just MTCW.
So, here is a very good site to bug with some probably previously published, but revealing pics. of the aftermath of Jrs. runway excursion.
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2019/08/cessna-680a-citation-latitude-n8jr.html
The net net of this event is Laima, the Latvian deity of "good fortune" and the name of my sailboat! A well traveled C320. Nobody else gets it.
Had the left main collapsed, as opposed to the right, the door would have likely been blocked from opening and the chain link fence slid till the left powerplant stopped it. No door blockage. The airframe integrity was such that even after all that, the door still opened! The fire started while they could and were on the way out from the only way out. Apparently the right wing had already caught fire. With a lot of fuel on board for a twenty minute flight into a short obstructed runway. It was burning in the drainage culvert! The NTSB hasn't even released the supposed video of the 2 (two) bounces somewhere on the runway. So much for my non NTSB observations.
So, siriusloon, be sure to post the final NTSB report for this accident on this site as some of the old timers have after extensive discussions a year or two before other accident reports were released. We might all be surprised how the narrative seems so oddly familiar.
And heaven forbid, some one might learn something from those old pro observations that they read about here as opposed to a final NTSB report that they never read.
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2019/08/cessna-680a-citation-latitude-n8jr.html
The net net of this event is Laima, the Latvian deity of "good fortune" and the name of my sailboat! A well traveled C320. Nobody else gets it.
Had the left main collapsed, as opposed to the right, the door would have likely been blocked from opening and the chain link fence slid till the left powerplant stopped it. No door blockage. The airframe integrity was such that even after all that, the door still opened! The fire started while they could and were on the way out from the only way out. Apparently the right wing had already caught fire. With a lot of fuel on board for a twenty minute flight into a short obstructed runway. It was burning in the drainage culvert! The NTSB hasn't even released the supposed video of the 2 (two) bounces somewhere on the runway. So much for my non NTSB observations.
So, siriusloon, be sure to post the final NTSB report for this accident on this site as some of the old timers have after extensive discussions a year or two before other accident reports were released. We might all be surprised how the narrative seems so oddly familiar.
And heaven forbid, some one might learn something from those old pro observations that they read about here as opposed to a final NTSB report that they never read.