Originally Posted by
787PIC
A redneck worshiped by millions of NASCAR crazies with MAGA hats!��
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, with a displaced threshold, surrounded by high terrain.)
Not sure if he owned this jet or chartered?
Either way, a lot of low time inexperienced 135/91 pilots are intimidated to fly into these small airports because it is convenient for the owner or renter!
That "redneck" owns several businesses with hundreds of employees, and has a personal net worth near $200 million.
Are you actually a pilot? A 4,500' runway is more than adequate for a Latitude and all midsize business jets at 1,600' elevation, the DA at the accident time, and landing weight a 20 minute flight with three pax and a dog implies.. A "small prop aircraft" uses less than 1,500' of runway including 50' obstacle clearance in virtually all conditions.
The "brand new high performance jet" was four years old, and it's performance is not much more or less than all jets in its class.
Earnhardt's JR Motorsports flight department is affiliated with Hendrick Motorsports flight ops, and their fleet includes a GV, (2) ERJ 145s, and a Bell 430. Its professional standards are second to none.
The reasons for the hard landing and overrun will be like all such incidents, a combination of events that conspired to cause the mishap. One of them will not be "low time inexperienced pilots". How, exactly, are you privy to information that "a lot" of such pilots exist in 135/91 flight ops?