Wish I knew where it happened so I could look it up, but this story was told to me by a guy that was at recurrent. He was in the right seat of a Citation II. Short version:
Came in hot, flying pilot had a habit of throwing TR out with nose in air. As soon as the mains touched the FP deployed the buckets. He said the aircraft pitched to a deck angle of, his words" straight fukking up". It came down tail first and then the nose hammered the runway.
The breakdown was in the fact that this Capt. did this all the time and it was a habit. Though he knew he was fast, it was an involentary response to the mains touching. Half a million in damage and a record of an accident for each crew member. I understand that they must have been smokin' on final, but why get in the habit of doing something that has so little benefit, and a potentially disasterous downside.
Came in hot, flying pilot had a habit of throwing TR out with nose in air. As soon as the mains touched the FP deployed the buckets. He said the aircraft pitched to a deck angle of, his words" straight fukking up". It came down tail first and then the nose hammered the runway.
The breakdown was in the fact that this Capt. did this all the time and it was a habit. Though he knew he was fast, it was an involentary response to the mains touching. Half a million in damage and a record of an accident for each crew member. I understand that they must have been smokin' on final, but why get in the habit of doing something that has so little benefit, and a potentially disasterous downside.
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