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Several people injured when jet runs off PDK runway
Several people were injured late Monday morning when a small jet ran off the end of a runway at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. Four people were on board the Hawker Beechcraft 40 that ran off the end of Runway 20L around 10 a.m., then went through a fence before coming to rest near Dresden Road, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen. Initial fire dispatch reports indicated that all four people were injured. There was reportedly 700 gallons of fuel leaking from the… (www.ajc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Vso in a 400XP is 92kias with full flaps so Vref is 120. That end of the property drops 30 feet past the threshold. A little more and he would have been in the mall across the street.
I don't understand why they had so much fuel inboard.A BE400 at max fuel doesn't hold much more than was reported on the a/c.Guess they were tanking to keep from buying fuel there.If that is correct they would have been right at 17000#Smax which would have put them over landing weight by about 1500 to 2000#s.I think the fuel onboard was way less than reported.Just the same I am very happy no one was killed in this accident and from the way it sounds the crew pulled it out of an even worse accident.
The only information the media gets for stuff like this (at least on day one of the investigation) is the max capacity of fuel the plane can carry. They didn't interview the pilot and find out how much fuel it had...they just state a number based on what it is capable of carrying.
Beech 400 can carry ~4912 lbs of fuel which equals the reported ~700 gallons. Even if full tanks it would have been ~500-700 less due to amount of fuel burned on the flight from Gasden to PDK.
Beech 400 can carry ~4912 lbs of fuel which equals the reported ~700 gallons. Even if full tanks it would have been ~500-700 less due to amount of fuel burned on the flight from Gasden to PDK.
One thing about a Beechjet is this and it is they seem to be a very good aircraft to fly with a well trained crew.We had two based at our airport and they never departed with a wings only load of fuel no matter where they were going.Min.trunk fuel was never less than 150 gallons(1000 #s) and we were 20 minutes from the closest airport.Flew on them numerous times since Beech first got them from Mitsubishi and loved every minute.They are little rockets on takeoff but,you better be ready should a problem arise.Looks like this crew sure was for no one lost their life and that is great.
09:05AM 33.8833 -84.3000 192° South 214 246 1,300 -300 Atlanta TRACON KA80
Vref+100 can make landings a little tricky.
Vref+100 can make landings a little tricky.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N826JH/history/20120618/1330Z/KGAD/KPDK