Why not to land downwind
That is true, but the engine did finally quit and it did not
appear that there was any water ingestion to drown the
engine. Once a jet is running, it takes shutting down the
fuel supply to kill it, there was no one on the airplane.
Since it was filmed, non-fatal and only minor injuries, it
is possible that it was just left out of the report.
Clearly the PIC failed to calculate properly, to know his
airport restrictions, but he sure did provide a great bit of
video.
"Peter Duniho" wrote in
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
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| I think it stopped when out of fuel, which might explain
why
| the pilot landed downwind and at an airport closed to
jet
| traffic.
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| That would be a good guess, except that the accident
report doesn't say
| anything about the fuel being low or empty. Checking the
fuel state is SOP
| for an accident report (even if no engine failure
occurred), so the lack of
| any comment regarding that strongly suggests that fuel
wasn't a factor at
| all in the incident.
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