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NTSB: Pilot's actions likely caused Earnhardt plane crash
A pilot's inability to maintain proper airspeed and the flight crew's decision to continue an unstable approach and landing likely caused the crash of a small plane carrying race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his family in 2019, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday. The NTSB's final accident report points to actions by the pilot and co-pilot in the Aug. 15, 2019 plane crash at an airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Earnhardt was with… (www.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Or even divert to Tri-Cities, where you have a lot more runway to work with.
Or, just enter downwind and land the way they should have landed in the first place.
I don’t know the pilots’ experience and background but everywhere I’ve worked flying jets so far, when the thrust reversers come open you have decided to land and you get what you get after. Trying to stow the reversers and then wait for TOGA power to come in will take forever and you’re eating up a lot of runway really fast at that speed. Those guys need a lot of retraining at minimum before they should be allowed to carry passengers again.
there were several wrong decisions, trying to hurry the approach, continuing that approach, which caused it to be unstable, not going around prior to touchdown, not deploying the speedbrake at touchdown, then attempting a go around after the TR's were deployed. It says in the POH not to attempt to go around once the TR's have been deployed. they made some bad decisions.
Pilot Richard Pope told the NTSB that he was carrying extra speed on the approach to the runway because ''if you ain't first, you're last,'' according to a summary of the pilots' statements to the NTSB.
"Should I go around?"
"No."
Really hard to believe that with this unstable of a visual approach that they didn't just come around and do it right. Very glad that no one was seriously injured, could have been so much worse.