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C90GTi ditches due to fuel exhaustion close to Aruba
Saw this didn't make it to flight aware yet, not taking credit for this. Just sharing with my fellow aviation bugs. Thought? (forum.scramble.nl) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Maybe manufacturers should start posting realistic fuel burns for there airplanes.
I bet the airplane's owner wishes the pilots were left to swim the 20 miles to shore..
They could've slowed down a bit and got more range from it.
They could've slowed down a bit and got more range from it.
With distances like that, I would have looked in to alternate methods of ferrying it over. I'm not too familiar with the rules and regs, but you might be able to take the wings off and slide it in a shipping container. After taking a peek at the flight track, it looks like they could have stopped for gas in the Bahamas, or Inagua.
Inagua is The Bahamas.
Nonsense, dismantling and reassemblying needs specialized mechanics and costs far more than ferrying, besides for decades they have been ferrying single engine planes to Africa by way of Canada, Greenland and Europe, and to Australia and Far East by way of Alaska or direct to Hawaii with no problems but then again, the pilots got to be highly trained and highly experienced not like the bozos that ruined this brand new plane (I almost cried when seeing this beauty sinking).
Seems that the pilots were inclined to stretch the max range of this aircraft and caught up by it; The previous day they filed a flight plan from the Beech factory to Ft. Lauderdale some 1100 naut. miles away but for some reason which seems easy to surmize, decided to land at the Marianna airport in upper Florida, refuel and continue to FLL almost two hours further SE. The sandard range of the B90 is 877 miles so in all likelyhood she was fitted with extra fuel tanks. foFtunately the two pilots were able to walk away (another good landing? you fools?).