Originally Posted by
787PIC
Perhaps intimidated his pilots to take this brand new high performance jet into an airport (0A9) that is barely OK for a small prop aircraft.
(1600’ altitude and about 4500’ long runway, surrounded by high terrain.)
Not sure if he owned this jet or chartered?
I disagree. Yes, it's quite short but no too short.
R24 LDA 4100 feet.
R06 LDA 4432 feet.
Typical landing mass for a Latitude with two pilots and three pax and about 2000lbs of fuel would be about 20000 to 22500 lbs. 5000lbs below max structural landing mass.
R06 at 0A9 airport has a GPS approach (LNAV only). The minima are high but the weather was just about perfect.
Not sure why they landed on 24. Probably came from the east?
LDR for the conditions above: 2400 feet, unfactored, Vref 99 knots. If there is one thing the Latitude is good at it's short fields.
FAR landing field length would be less than 4000 feet. So even if part 135, no issues. On either runway.
Actual, unfactored LDR at max landing mass (if tankering for example) is still less than 2800 feet. Ref 108 knots.
All data is A/T off.
There is more to the story. Either they were way too fast and/or touched down way too late or they had a brake failure or something else happened
We will find out, I hope