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pilot370

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Sittin here at the holiday inn express at TEB and just heard about a falcon landing long here at TEB? As of right now i couldnt find anything on it yet though.
 
Oh boy, it would appear that a well-known, much admired flight department from the midwest had a bad day. I'm only going off of the above audio clip but if the tail number indicated is correct than this is the aircraft:

http://www.planespotting.net/R_N973M.html

I'm glad that everyone is okay!:)
 
FlyingFisherman said:

At 3:25 into the recording, the controller says(or, at least it sounds like) "(unintelligible) 99, airport is now closed, all surfaces are now yours, right side tire of the Falcon is on fire".

Did the aircraft catch fire? If so, what was the end result? I haven't seen anything yet that indicates that everybody was OK...but maybe I'm missing something.
 
From what I know there were no fatalities. If there were I wouldn't have posted the file. The initial recording was maybe 8-9 minutes (taken from liveatc.net) from when they checked in on the ILS with some dead-air time I edited out.

Still hoping.
 
Bummer

I saw it on parked outside of JET AVIATION on a flatbed. All gear were down and locked.

Hope all is okay.
 
From PM

"Wasn't me (fortunately), but the crew and pax are all fine, minor damage to the airplane, no injuries to anyone...

Time will tell what the cause was..."
 
This is when you really find out why people like Gulfstreams.

Back in the day, when the 900's first came out I was working for a major corp flt dept that had a problem with a 900. It slid off the side of the runway and put one of the mains through the wing. Everyone was fine.

Dassault instantly took the attitude that it was the pilots fault and that was the only possibility, their was no possible way that their product could have been at fault.

They fought tooth and nail, blaming it on the crew. Luckily for the crew the CEO stood behind them.

The CEO went back to Dassault and said, give me the demo. If it turns out to be our fault we will buy a new aircraft (or the demo from you). If it turns out to be your fault, you give the 900 to us. Did I mention that they already were operating 2-900's a 3 F50's.

Dassault said, "no thanks, their is no way this is our fault, it's your crews fault". The CEO replied, "is that your final answer"?

The CEO then called Mr. Paulson and said, "How would you like to have some Falcons"?

The 900 was in TEB (former Dasault maint service center). On jacks getting the wing replaced, when my boss asked me to put the new registration in the cockpit. "Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Savannah Ga." The other F900 was flown to the NBAA and put on demonstration with a sign, "Recently traded in on a new G4". This was back in the late 80's when the 900's were brand new. OUCH! Paulson knew how to market, he had a G4 up to the hanger so fast the French didn't know what hit them and the reason why I am G4G5 and not F50F900.

Long story short, Grumman designed the thrust reverser on the F50 and the French didn't want to have to pay the rights to use it on the 900, so they designed their own. It failed and caused the aircraft to lose control. Not the crew.

I just hope the folks on this 900 have better luck working with Dassault to prove their case. My guess is that it may be even more difficult when you take into account their recent fleet switch.

Let's just be glad that everyone got out safely.
 
tr failure

G4G5,

A centerline, single reverser failure causing a loss of control??

I've never flown a 50 or a 900, but that seems unlikely.
 
The original F50 design had the cockpit TR indication based upon the actual position of the door. Since this was designed by Grumman, Dassault could not copy it. They moved the indication to the bell crank on the TR actuator. This gave TR actuator position based upon bell crank position and not the direct indication of the TR door's positions.

The eye bolt on the TR bell crank, which connects the TR actuator bell crank to the TR door linkage failed. One TR door snapped free and the other was in it's normal position. The crew still had the green TR light in the cockpit so they added max reverse. Their logic was the same as yours,we have a Green light and center line reverse, so the TR can't be the problem. With one door open and one TR door closed the aircraft slid and departed the side of the runway. FYI it was raining and the runway was wet.

Dassault in turn had to change the position of the indicator switch locations. FYI on a F50 (Grumman design) the closed door (failed door) would have contacted the switch and put out the green light.

I believe it's F900 AD 90-10-10. This happened in the late 80's when the 900 first came out and it took a couple of years and lots of the companies money to find Dassault at fault, and the AD to come out.

http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/0/922D8562ACD8148386256A1F006A57E3?OpenDocument

The bottom line was, Dassault had the failed part in hand. It was quite obvious from the pictures that the part had failed. They still blamed the crew. The company still had to spend big bucks to defend their pilots and prove that pilot technique or pilot error did not cause the part to fail. The French spent years fighting them. They lost a 5+ Falcon operator, one of the first to put down money on the 900's. IMHO, over ego.

That was the point of my story, these poor guys may have done everything correctly but Dassault will be on the defensive to screw them to the wall to protect their product. Even if they are wrong.
 
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not that anyone knows exactly what happened at TEB (Im not even guessing)....

IMHO ( I stress that), the 900EX has the poorest brakes I have ever used....and the "TR" is fairly useless.

great airplane, very reliable...but the brakes are downright awful. I simply dont trust it on a shorter, contaminated runway, especially with some wind.

YMMV.
 
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G4g5

I have heard that about Falcon before. I talked to a crew from a large bank who operated a Falcon 2000. They had a part of some sort fail on the nosegear. Falcons response to the owners of the under warranty aircraft was " That part can not fail"
 
Change of runway

Listening to the ATC tape its interesting that the Falcon crew were the only crew that requested a different runway in the 30 minute clip I listened to then were asked to keep it in tight.

I heard over a NBAA site a crew waiting to take off observed the Falcon on approach actually considered evasive action on the ground as the falcon approach was making the nervous and they weren't sure if the aircraft was going to make the runway. Keep in mind except for ATC tapes this is third hand information
 
Falcon Operator: "Sir, we have a broken (fill in the blank). We were in cruise and started a descent when it went 'POW'. We got (associated warning and indication. It os broken."

Dassault Rep: "But misseur zet iz imposseeebuhhl."

Falcon Operator: "Impossible? The damned thing is broken!"

Dassault Rep: "But misseur zee airplen eez not deeeezigned to break zeees way!"

:)
 

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