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Airplane Repo Owners Jet runs off runway
Marco Island, FL - Investigators are looking into what caused a private jet to crash land at the Marco Island Executive Airport Sunday. The plane is owned by Six Hundred NP, LLC - and reality star Nick Popovich of the Discovery Channel's Airplane Repo is registered to own that company. (www.nbc-2.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thrust reverses or not, landing distance is calculated without them! Non-precision approach, maybe too high or too fast or combination of both. Flown all the approaches to this airport in cat C aircraft and you have to get it right the first time or go around. Still, could be a mechanical issue....will have to wait and see.
Accident summary page -- http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=174207
Aircraft registration for N600NP -- http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N600NP
Aircraft registration for N600NP -- http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N600NP
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Yes, 5000' is plenty, but it is going by in a hurry if you're delaying braking and dinking around with reversers. Reversers have also been known to fail in ways that provide more forward thrust as you try to reverse. Good luck trying to figure that out after touchdown. Anyway, thank God everybody is OK, and this one should be figured out in short order.
I see pilots trying to grease it on a lot of times on short runways. Short plus wet plus floating trying to impress passengers are a bad mix. As proven, a firm landing in the touchdown zone is way better than a soft one outside of it...
True true. Firm landings usually need not be explained while excursions off the end of the runway usually do.
That's an understatement. lol