How not to land a Citation

[epic!]

what a DA

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

That was awesome. I had heard about this when it happend, but I wasn't aware that the engine restarted after everyone had evacutated. Wow.

 

[wrxpilot]

That was awesome. I had heard about this when it happend, but I wasn't aware that the engine restarted after everyone had evacutated. Wow.

I heard (ya, speculation) that the pilot evacuated the pax, restarted, and tried to make it back onto the a/p property. Makes more sense than the FADEC starting the engine(s) and throttling up.

Those gotta be some pretty stout engines though, can't imagine how much water erosion was in the turbine section after that. Anyone know the manufacturer on that model?

 

[TrafficInSight]

That was the most bizzarre thing I've ever seen.

 

[kf4amu]

I heard (ya, speculation) that the pilot evacuated the pax, restarted, and tried to make it back onto the a/p property. Makes more sense than the FADEC starting the engine(s) and throttling up.

Sounds plausible, considering the pilots poor decision making up to that point.

 

[Flysher]

i think i recognize that guys voice! I used to flyin there with students and he would always waive the landing fee for us. Awesome guy.

that jet looked like a dog treading water when he fired the engines back up.

anyone know when that happened?

 

[siucavflight]

May 15th 2005

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

I cannot see anybody being stupid enough to try to restart the plane in the water. My guess would be that Mr. Bozo the pilot didn't bother to shut anything down after he hit the water. My Guess is It flamed out when it took the first dive in the drink then the pilot left the throttles out of the cut off position and the master switch on. In theory the water filling up the hell hole in the back and covering the battery could have shorted out the system and activated the starter generator and then auto ignition took care of the rest.

I would not have thought it a real possibility, but Citations are known to ocassionally have S/G issues and the starter run continously even after shut down until the battery is disconnected. One of the quirks of the system that they train for at Flight Safety and Simuflite etc.

Then again the dude tried to land on a runway that was too short to start with, and then just to make it sporting he tried to do it downwind, so who knows what was going through his noggin!

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Hmmm. The guy (notice the registration #) puts it in the drink, the engines flame out due to water ingestion, the guys up front bail out, throttles are left in the same position as they were during the overrun, the igniters are still on, the master is still on, seems reasonable to me....fuel+ignition source=relight. NICE.

 

[Van Hooydonk]

The only way this could have been more entertaining, would be if Caneman would have done the narration. I can hear it now, "Pretty smoooooth landing....looks like he is going to take it for a wash"