Private jet landing at Scottsdale airport veers off runway and crashes into a parked business jet.
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That’s sad, but it’s easy to see how that happened. Of course the accident investigation will reveal all. I used to fly the Lear 35 (the aircraft with the failed gear). It is a fun but squirrelly little airplane. One of your main landing gear failing at high speed, it would be very difficult to react in time, and even if you did exactly the right thing it might not be enough to keep you on the runway.
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I’m 4 miles from that airport, so have been following all the news reports. There is a video of the landing and it looked the the plane landed and was going slow (You could hear the scraping), but veered off the runway at the last minute. Unfortunately there was a lot more damage than I would have expected. There is a lot of conflicting info on how many people were involved and if they were able to get the last person out of the wreckage.
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Maybe the video I was looking at was too small to tell, but I was guessing about 80 knots, maybe halfway through their landing rollout. Hard to see. Definitely not down to taxi speed, which would have just made a large dent. Very sad.
This is so tragic. We had brunch at the restaurant there last spring…and it was fabulous. Watched all the private planes coming and going.
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Turns out that the plane was owned by Motley Crue’s Vince Neil. He wasn’t onboard, but his GF was & she was injured.
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busdriver, there is a YouTube channel that features a pretty thoughtful/respectful pilot (maybe instructor) that analyzes plane crashes. I came upon it by chance one day when I saw he covered a private plane crash in the Dallas area that took the lives of 8 people, several of whom were friends of some of my friends. I found his analysis quite fascinating, and I referred his channel to my Dad (retired USAF and Southwest/AA pilot instructor), who now watches his channel faithfully. Do you ever watch these kinds of channels, or is it too much of what you already do and therefore not of interest?
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I wonder if I know your dad, as I was in the USAF and at AA for a few years, too. That would be funny, it’s a small world in aviation. 
That might be something I’m interested in, though after 37 years of hearing the gory details of aviation accidents once or twice a year in training, I don’t usually linger on that stuff unless it’s someone I know or an airplane I’ve flown. I either get annoyed because the ignorant jump on ridiculous conclusions (like DEI caused the airplane crash) or depressed when people die. Fortunately commercial flying has been extremely safe over the last couple of decades.
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