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LEARJET 35 CRASH Teterboro NJ
A Learjet 35 just crashed on approach to KTEB - Tail # N452DA http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N452DA (www.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The FO on this flight was a friend of mine. Reading the reports and watching the videos is a bit tough to do. Aviation is a profession that gives greatly but when it takes away it takes away greatly and often it takes away great people. This is the risk we take every time we step into the cockpit but we do it willingly and professionally because its something we love to do. My friend was no exception to that, he just simply loved to fly. So to both of the crew may you rest in piece and forever fly high and with Godspeed.
Well said Bryan. Every loss in mourned, much more the loss of a friend. This site is full of great people and they come here to not only discuss current aviation events but to add their knowledge and also learn. Some of that free knowledge and learning may help prevent the future loss of acquaintances, friends, and family in this unforgiving endeavor we call aviation.
Bryan, very sorry for you losing your friend, and the Co-P/ .
Bryan, I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend and his co-pilot. As you say, aviation gives greatly, but at times takes away greatly. Such a tragic loss...
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.
Flown that ILS 06 circle 01more times than I can remember in everything from Lear to a G5 and you have to do it just right every time. There is a liltte thing called "illusions created by drift" and I'm guessing the winds were out of the NNW around 40kts at 1500'. Very unfortunate.
I think you hit it Highflyer. Control was lost well above the surface where the winds and gusts are usually much stronger. From the tower's remark asking when the lear was going to start its turn, the circle may have been started late and the aircraft overbanked at too slow of speed for the gusty conditions.
Very tragic. RIP
Very tragic. RIP
This flight was an empty leg on a 135 airplane. Quite possibly, the 20 year old co-pilot was the PF. IF he was late beginning the circling turn, as the ATC transmission suggests, and he was carrying extra airspeed for the windy conditions, he would have had to make a steeper turn than normal to compensate for the late entry to the circling maneuver and the extra airspeed. The Lear 35 has very short and sweptback wings. When banking any wing, a portion of the lift vector is not vertical. The lift vector stays perpendicular to the wing, while the gravity vector remains constant, therefore banking too steeply causes loss of lift. The photo taken moments before the crash shows the nose of the airplane to be nearly vertical to the ground with one wing higher than the other. Classic stall spin. Not enough altitude to recover. Tragic. God rest their souls. Bryan McKee, I am so, so sorry for your loss.
Good explanation Victoria, but 13 degrees is not much sweep. However, the PIC should have been monitoring the approach much closer and in the end if you are out of position, just go around.
The 20 year old Co-pilot's 33 years old. Experience, not age makes the airman...