Who had the C-750 mishap @JFK

[t-bone]

They casually asked if 13R was available, which is something like 14000 feet long. Tower said no, so they accepted 13L (declaring an emergency would have helped them there!), which has a landing distance available of under 10K. But, if they went off the side of the runway, it really doesn't matter how long the thing was...they needed a wider runway...

 

[G4G5]

Yeah.....

9/27 at SWF is only 2 miles long....

With a Cessna repair facility

 

[NotFurloughed]

With a Cessna repair facility

Exactly my point...and if you do run off the runway in SWF there may be a tiny blip in the local paper, and you interrupt maybe 1 aircraft operation. Go off the runway at JFK and....well you know.....

Fuel shouldn't have been an issue. Nobody takes off on a flight of that length from their home base and say - "...we'll just fill 'er up when we get to JFK..."

And I know from experience what a complete nightmare it is trying to get maintenance done at JFK - they make it all but impossible.

But from everything else I see, the crew didn't thing "a" side fluid loss was that big of a deal, and their actions reflect that.