Biffle plane crash

[6PKRTSE]

R.I.P. He was a cool dude. He was in town one time and stopped by our work. I happened to have 20 free tickets for a comedy club for my Birthday, so we asked him along. It was pretty cool to hang out with a NASCAR celebrity all night and surprisingly enough almost no one even recognized him or bothered him all night.

 

[Crackedback]

Talking with a friend that flies corporate commercial stuff like this aircraft.

Low ceiling, attempting VFR, pilot possibly not used to flying that aircraft and its warts (big commercials were his norm 737/757/767 etc.), put in a dirty configuration that (Friend said about the 550 on one engine, turd with an anchor) didn't have the thrust/power to maintain airspeed (drag), tight turn, unstable approach. Stalled the aircraft. Really rough deal.

ANC Aviate (attitude/airspeed/altitude), navigate, communicate. They had plenty of airspeed/ground speed according to flight data. Altitude, 4K+ when turning to come back. Altitude is your friend here if flight controls are stable and responsive. Stay high, burn off fuel, figure out your escape, declare an emergency to Charlotte and head there where IFR, long strip when landing using a non ideal configuration is the better choice. They flew 7 minutes back to the Statesville airport, it would have been about 10 minutes to Charlotte. They appeared to have altitude and control of the aircraft.

Why that front baggage area, if the root issue when they took off, doesn't have a safety net to contain any items within the hold. Like a drivers net on a cup car. Lose the door, and contents still stay in the hold. No loose stuff that can go through the net. Only larger items. Bag full of trinkets, no go. Not the first time one of those doors on a 550 became unsecured.

Greg was a cool guy and helped a lot of people in and out of racing. Legendary stuff with the Hurricane relief. Horrible deal for all that passed RIP

 

[dadsbee]

2 crew aircraft and there was only one with qualifications. FAA has already stated that they flew a stable approach... with gear down and flaps set, just too low as they hit trees and the fence before the by then flameball hit the airport.

 

[Crackedback]

2 crew aircraft and there was only one with qualifications. FAA has already stated that they flew a stable approach... with gear down and flaps set, just too low as they hit trees and the fence before the by then flameball hit the airport.

Bad/low glide path to my friend isn't a stable approach.

He also said that if they full flapped it, gear down, close to max weight, no way the aircraft would maintain minimum speed on one engine.

 

[XS22J8R]

Dan Gryder, who is an experienced Cessna Citation jet pilot, but a controversial YouTube personality, posted a video last night critical of the pilot in this accident.
That plane requires 2 type rated pilots at the controls, however a pilot can get certified to fly that type single pilot.
He found no information indicating this pilot had single pilot certification for the Citation. His copilot was his son, who is a pilot, but only shows single engine rated, not multi engine, or type rated in the Citation in the FAA database.
Gryder said that plane is underpowered on one engine and can’t hold altitude with flaps and gear down. The only way to nurse the plane back would have been to delay putting gear down and/or any flaps until when on short final to the runway. Or even land it gear up. But it would climb on one engine with flaps and gear up, so best course of action would have been to climb straight out to a safe altitude, then get vectored to the the nearby larger better equipped Charlotte airport for a stabilized instrument approach. His probable cause theory is an engine failure of one engine followed by pilot error in dealing with the emergency.
If in fact the pilot wasn’t qualified for single pilot operation of this type, and his copilot son wasn’t type rated in the Citation, Biffles aircraft insurance would likely have grounds to deny paying any claims on this tragedy due to it not being operated with a qualified crew.